AP reporter confuses / collapses difference between voter fraud and election fraud. Convenient!

[EFerrari]

This is the Republican War on Poverty, right here, folks. The raid is an intmidation tactic against low income voters and the AP reporter is misreporting the fact that we have a problem with voter intimidation and no problem with "voter fraud". Here's the article:

ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe
By OSKAR GARCIA, Associated Press Writer Tue Oct 7, 1:30 PM ET

LAS VEGAS - Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote.


A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away.

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The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities formed a task force to pursue election-fraud allegations in Nevada.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_el_pr/voter_fraud_probe

PUSH BACK: 1) Ask the AP why Oskar Garcia doesn't know the difference between election fraud and voter fraud. 2) Ask them to investigate voter intimidation in Las Vegas. 3) Ask them how many swing states have active and ongoing "voter fraud" actions when THEY HAVE NO RECORD OF VOTER FRAUD AT ALL.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_el_pr/voter_fraud_probe

[Supersedeas]

1. corporatistas

[EFerrari]

6. Pendejos.

[L. Coyote]

2. I wonder who supplied the text for the author? The GOP?

[EFerrari]

5. I think they have a dedicated fax machine.

:shrug:

[mod mom]

3. This pisses me off. They're mad about news such as this:

Oct. 7, 2008

For Immediate Release


OH SECRETARY BRUNNER ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN VOTER REGISTRATIONS IN 2008



COLUMBUS, Ohio – Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announced Tuesday that Ohio’s voter registration rolls grew by 665,949 voters in 2008. The deadline for voter registration was Monday, October 6, 2008.

According to the Secretary of State’s office, there were 7,518,189 active voters on January 1, 2008. After the close of voter registration, there were 8,184,138 active voters. Unlike the simple number of new registered voters, the number of active voters takes into account new registrations, changes in registration, and voters removed from the rolls under Ohio and federal law.

“We are already seeing the results of our preparation for November, with absentee voting a success across Ohio and 665,949 active voters added to the rolls. These are Ohioans from every corner of our state who can now take part in our democracy. Ohioans and, indeed the nation, can be confident that our preparation is yielding successful voting administration in 2008,” Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said.

According to Secretary of State records, the following counties showed the largest net gain of voters in 2008:


Rank

County

1/1/2008

10/6/2008

Net Change

1

CUYAHOGA

973,831

1,096,449

122,618

2

FRANKLIN

761,806

829,427

67,621

3

HAMILTON

549,743

596,722

46,979

4

BUTLER

228,384

258,055

29,671

5

SUMMIT

345,340

374,042

28,702

6

MONTGOMERY

354,972

382,842

27,870

7

STARK

243,349

268,518

25,169

8

LUCAS

286,145

310,905

24,760

9

LORAIN

184,296

201,001

16,705

10

CLERMONT

120,200

133,785

13,585

[EFerrari]

8. At least we know where they will hit.

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[annabanana]

4. hmmmm... ... ...AP, AP ,,, who's on the board of directors there now?

Who just joined their flock... qui bono?

[EFerrari]

9. This isn't new. Remember, they said we were wackos

for questioning the outcome of 2004.

"Authorized Propaganda" spams stuff every day.

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[EFerrari]

7. Send this item to Media Matters:

mm-tips @mediamatters.org

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[mod mom]

10. ACORN STATEMENT:

PRESS CALL-IN CONFERENCE TODAY AT 5:15 P.M. EST: 1-800-351-4894. Code: 578162

ACORN Statement from Bertha Lewis, Interim Chief Organizer, on Incident in Las Vegas:


"Over the past year, ACORN<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=E2jK8smdXMVSzYB%2BmdzwNLCWrxkftEQD> has worked hard to help over 80,000 people in Clark County register to vote. As part of our nonpartisan voter registration program, we have review all the applications submitted by our canvassers. When we have identified suspicious applications, we have separated them out and flagged them for election officials. We have zero tolerance for fraudulent registrations. We immediately dismiss employees we suspect of submitting fraudulent registrations.


For the past 10 months, any time ACORN<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=V1yO%2F6VNYx%2BcmMytUbfjS7CWrxkftEQD> has identified a potentially fraudulent application, we turn that application into election officials separately and offer to provide election officials with the information they would need to pursue an investigation or prosecution of the individual.


Election officials routinely ignored this information and failed to act. In early July, ACORN<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nhU5pSAajnrprb4717x5pbCWrxkftEQD> asked to meet with election officials to express our concerns that they were not acting on information ACORN had presented to them. ACORN met with Clark County elections officials and a representative of the Secretary of State on July 17th. ACORN pleaded with them to take our concerns about fraudulent applications seriously. One week later, elections officials asked us to provide them with a second copy of what we had previously provided to them. ACORN responded by giving election officials copies of 46 "problem application packages," which involved 33 former canvassers.


On September 23, ACORN had received a subpoena dated September 19^th requesting information on 15 employees, all of whom had been included in the packages we had previously submitted to election officials. ACORN<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0w3ywce5Fl%2B5oxUd8GHBfLCWrxkftEQD> provided our personnel records on these 15 employees on September 29.


Today's raid by the Secretary of State's Office is a stunt that serves no useful purpose other than discredit our work registering Nevadans and distracting us from the important work ahead of getting every eligible voter to the polls."

[EFerrari]

12. It's intimidation, plain and simple! We can't let them get away with this!

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[EFerrari]

11. Thanks for the votes, guys!

These are the incidents we need to attend to if our election is to be safe.

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[Kaleko]

13. Done & recommended.

[blm]

14. It's deliberate. This is also why Rove needed trumped up cases pursued - it's all about the Google

so that when anyone researches election fraud or vote fraud a number of articles smearing Dems will show up, too, no matter that they were concocted or exaggerated, they'll be treated equal to the rigged voting machines and purged voter rolls, and the other deceitful tactics GOP uses to steal elections....hey, the corpmedia will say, they BOTH do it, and all will be well.

[EFerrari]

15. Exactly, blm. This is a deliberate attempt to shut down our voter reg

and to make it look "legal".

Don't buy into it, folks!

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[Wilms]

16. k&r n/t

[EFerrari]

17. Kick

[mod mom]

18. FLASHBACK 2004 (from Media Matters):

Wed, Oct 27, 2004 3:26pm ETSend to a friend Print Version
Michelle Malkin and NewsMax falsely claimed ACORN registered accused terrorist to vote


In her October 27 nationally syndicated column, conservative pundit Michelle Malkin erroneously claimed that The Columbus Dispatchreported that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) registered illegal alien and accused terrorist Nuradin Abdi to vote in Ohio. While The Columbus Dispatch didreport that Abdi was illegally registered to vote in Ohio, the papernever reported that ACORN registered Abdi. Rather, according to theDispatch, Abdi appears to have registered to vote at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

ACORN's website describes the group as "the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families."

A Nexis search revealed that The Columbus Dispatch has mentioned Abdi twice in the past 30 days: on October 24 and October 26. The October 24 article reported that Abdi was registered to vote in Ohio but did not mention ACORN. Malkin apparently based her assertion on an article published in the right-wing NewsMax Magazine (and postedon NewsMax.com on October 24) that did report that ACORN registered Abdi to vote, inaccurately citing the Dispatch, as well as an Ohio News Network TV report that mentioned both ACORN and Nuradin Abdi but made no linkage between the two.

From the NewsMax Magazine article:

Nuradin Abdi, a Somali immigrant and admitted al-Qaida member who was indicted earlier this year as part of a conspiracy to blow up the Columbus Mall, was registered to vote by the left-wing group ACORN, according to the Columbus Dispatch and the Ohio News Now TV Network.

From Malkin's October 27 column:

Last week, the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reported that illegal alien Nuradin Abdi -- the suspected shopping mall bomb plotter from Somalia -- was registered to vote in the battleground state of Ohio by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a left-wing activist group.



But the October 26 Columbus Dispatch article that mentioned Abdi noted that the NewsMax Magazine report was inaccurate. According to a county election official, Abdi's "voter-registration application appears to have been taken by the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles":

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200410270005

[EFerrari]

19. If Michele Malkin is working at discrediting ACORN,

you know they're doing something right.

lol

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