ACORN Calls Police Raid of Las Vegas Office a Political "Stunt"

[struggle4progress]

The group had been sharing material about problem voter registrations with Nevada officials for months
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
Posted October 7, 2008

... "This is a stunt because we have been working with election officials since the beginning of February to identify problem (registration) cards and when they did not take that seriously, we met with them and asked them to please investigate these problem applications," said Michael Slater, Project Vote executive director. "We then gave them a whole set of materials, including information on the (ACORN) employees that we were concerned about and were cooperating fully."

"For them to execute some sort of search warrant and flag or call attention to the media while we did that is nothing more than a stunt since we were already providing information about the problem and in fact flagged the problem for them and asked them to take it seriously," he said.

Earlier this year, ACORN's Las Vegas office had turned over "at least 74 packages of problematic cards; there could be one or more voter applications per package," Slater said. ACORN then met with the Secretary of State's staff in mid-July and then turned over "46 packages, implicating 33 separate canvassers," he said. In 2008, ACORN registered more than 80,000 voters in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located.

"We flagged 200 applications out of those," Slater said. "More than 99 percent of the applications were valid applications. I don't understand the politics of it. I don't understand why they would go out and make a public show of information that we had already been providing them, and do it on the day when we were announcing the successful conclusion of our (2008 voter drive) work. It does seem political." ...

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/102055/acorn_calls_police_raid_of_las_vegas_office_a_political_%22stunt%22/

[Seldona]

1. So are we going to have police raids on every org that does VR?

Odds are SOME of those applications are fraudulant. They are going to need A LOT of raiding teams.