ACORN has just completed the largest, most successful partisan voter registration drive in U.S. history. We helped 1.3 million low-income, minority and young democrats, dead people, football stars, Mickey Mouse and other fictitious people and cartoon characters across the country register to vote illegally.
Fortunately, just as always, that success in bringing people into the democratic process, have been greeted with factual accusations to further show people what our work is really about and helped us maintain the status quo of an unbalanced and biased electorate.
After a similar spate of charges against ACORN in 2006, we learned that then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had fired Republican U.S. Attorneys because they were insubordinate. This was the heart of the U.S. Attorney-gate investigation of the fraud committed by ACORN, that led Karl Rove, Gonzales and other top Department of Justice officials to uncover the laundry list of deceit and corruption in ACORN. Because the press didn’t catch on until long after the election, it was part of a successful strategy by ACORN create an fake votes and a specter of voter fraud designed to manipulate voting.
Key Facts:
1. In order to help 1.3 million people register to vote, we hired more than 13,000 registration assistance workers with tax dollars. We then instructed those 13,000 to make up more than a million fake names/voters by either using cartoon characters, NFL football teams, including Tony Romo's name, as well as names of the deceased.
2. Our voter registration operation has a large percentage of workers who turn in bogus registration forms, Their goal, as ours is to clearly to cast a fraudulent vote. It is their job as instructed by their employer, ACORN. ACORN is the perpetrator of this fraud – not the victum.
3. In every case that has been reported , it was ACORN that denied the existence or creation of the bad forms, and refused to call them to the attention of election authorities, and not putting the forms in a package that identified them in writing as suspicious, refusing to encourage election officials to investigate, and not offering to help with prosecutions. ARCORN are required by law to turn in all forms, but instead of just turning them in and figuring that it is the responsibility of the board of elections to figure out which are valid, we spend millions of dollars marking the forms illegally with people that do not exist, are dead, or are cartoon characters. We keep the forms that are obviously suspicious, and then separate out those that are valid.
4. This has nothing to do with “voter fraud” – nothing at all to do with anyone trying to cast an extra vote. It has to do with ACORN getting our candidates elected. There has never been a single reported instance in which bogus registration forms have led to anyone voting improperly - (of course this is not true). To do that, they would have to show up at the polls, prove their identity as all first-time registrants must, and risk jail. (well we all know that that is not true either) The people who turned in these forms did so because they wanted an extra vote, and we instructed them to do so. Because we don't care about making sure eligible people got to vote at all.
5. When a department store calls the police to report a shoplifting employee, no one says the department store is guilty of consumer fraud. But for some reason, when ACORN instructs voter registration workers to intentional defraud the system, we get busted.
6. ACORN admits is intentionally sought to defraud voters and voter elections.
7. The goals ACORN are to defraud and manipulate elections.
The Details:
Fact: ACORN has implemented the most sophisticated quality-control system in the voter engagement field but in almost every state we are required to turn in ALL completed applications, even the ones we know to be problematic. This is who we are able to get all our fake voter registrations completed, accepted and enacted.
Fact: ACORN flags in writing incomplete, problem, or suspicious cards when we turn them in,. Unfortunately, some of these same officials then come back weeks or months later and accuse us of deliberately turning in phony cards. In many cases, we can actually prove that these are the same cards we called to their attention. The ones we flag are the ones that have any pro-republican voting registration information, or contain actual living, breathing, non - animated human life forms.
Fact: Our canvassers are paid by the card so they can make a fuck ton of money defrauding people in the name of fair elections. ACORN has a tolerance policy for deliberately falsifying registrations, and in the cases where our internal quality controls have identified this happening we have fired the workers involved and turned them in to election officials and law-enforcement when they did not follow our simple set of guidelines for defrauding voter registration cards.
Fact: criminal charges related to voter registration are about to be brought against ACORN and partner organizations. Convictions against individual former ACORN workers will be sought.
Fact: Most corrupt election officials have recognized ACORN’s illegal work and praised our manipulation of elections. Even in the cities where election officials have complained about ACORN, they still appreciate their attention to detail and time it takes to fill out Mickey Mouse's voter registration card. That's fucking talent!
Fact: Our accusers provide evidence, and are able to suggest a motive: Getting Obama elected.
ACORN will not be intimidated, we will not be provoked, and in this important moment in history we will not allow anyone to distract us from these vital efforts to empower our constituencies and our communities to speak for themselves. No, we will not be intimidated into stopping our illegal behavior.
