The Act, signed into law by President Clinton in 1993, is a primary reason voter fraud is so rampant - and easy. If you registered to vote before the law was passed you might not realize what a farce the process is today. When I re-registered to vote in Alabama after moving back from Florida in 1998, I was shocked to say the least. You need provide no proof whatsoever that you are a citizen eligible to vote. The current Alabama form requests an ID but does not require it. Thankfully the state does require identification to actually vote. This is the form I completed, which did not even request ID, Social Security number optional.
From John Fund's book Stealing Elections: (via PolitickerMD.com)
“Perhaps no piece of legislation in the last generation better captures the ‘incentivizing’ of fraud… than the 1993 National Voter Registration Act…Examiners were under orders not to ask anyone for identification or proof of citizenship. States also had to permit mail-in voter registrations, which allowed anyone to register without any personal contact with a registrar or election official. Finally, states were limited in pruning ‘dead wood’ - people who had died, moved or been convicted of crimes - from their rolls. … Since its implementation, Motor Voter has worked in one sense: it has fueled an explosion of phantom voters.”
Selectively adding millions of Democratic names to the voter rolls remains one of ACORN’s most lucrative activities, for which this organization has been given millions of dollars by organized labor, non-profit foundations, and Democratic-controlled government agencies.
Because Obama had worked closely with one of its leaders, Madeline Talbott, ACORN, in 1995, specifically sought out this radical young lawyer to help craft its lawsuit to impose President Bill Clinton’s 1993 National Voter Registration Act, nicknamed “Motor Voter,” according to Chicago ACORN leader Toni Foulkes.
Obama’s ACORN lawsuit won, thereby slapping aside state officials who resisted Motor Voter because of what it soon proved to be: a 12-lane superhighway to massive vote fraud.
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Motor Voter was the Clinton administration’s attempt permanently to tilt voter rolls in favor of the Democratic Party. And Obama, working for ACORN, played a key role in imposing this law.
James Simpson connects some dots highlighting the Cloward-Piven Strategy. He explains how ACORN's tactics follow this strategy and its influence on the passage of the Motor Voter Act:
On voting rights, ACORN and its voter mobilization subsidiary, Project Vote, have been involved nationwide in efforts to grant felons the vote and lobbied heavily for the Motor Voter Act of 1993, a law allowing people to register at motor vehicle departments, schools, libraries and other public places. That law had been sought by Cloward and Piven since the early 1980s and they were present, standing behind President Clinton at the signing ceremony.
ACORN's voter rights tactics follow the Cloward-Piven Strategy:
- 1. Register as many Democrat voters as possible, legal or otherwise and help them vote, multiple times if possible.
- 2. Overwhelm the system with fraudulent registrations using multiple entries of the same name, names of deceased, random names from the phone book, even contrived names.
- 3. Make the system difficult to police by lobbying for minimal identification standards.
In this effort, ACORN sets up registration sites all over the country and has been frequently cited for turning in fraudulent registrations, as well as destroying republican applications. In the 2004-2006 election cycles alone, ACORN was accused of widespread voter fraud in 12 states. It may have swung the election for one state governor.
ACORN is concentrating its efforts during this election on the "swing" states. It may very well swing the election to Barack Obama.
Here's what's happening in Pennsylvania:
A retired Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice says that she is "not confident we can get a fair election" in the state come November.
Justice Sandra Newman, accompanied by Dauphin County District Attorney Edward Marsico and Pennsylvania Republican State Chairman Robert Gleason, expressed her concerns at a Harrisburg press conference this morning. A thick document replete with photo copies of phony registrations and aerial shots of vacant lots used as "addresses" for "voters" was handed out to journalists.
Gleason was even more explicit.
"Between March 23rd and October 1st, various groups, including ACORN, submitted over 252,595 registrations to the Philadelphia County Election Board" with 57, 435 rejected for faulty information. "Most of these registrations were submitted by ACORN, and rejected due to fake social security numbers, incorrect dates of birth, clearly fraudulent signatures, addresses that do not exist, and duplicate registrations. In one case, a man was registered to vote more than 15 times since the Primary election."
Michelle Malkin on what's happening in Ohio:
...A federal district court judge has found Democrat Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner guilty of violating federal election laws. The ruling goes to the heart of the ACORN-centered voter fraud epidemic spreading across the country. This is the second judgment against Brunner. Here’s the press release from the Ohio GOP:
Court Finds Brunner in Violation of Federal Law
Secretary of State appeals ruling, fights effort to validate registrations(Columbus) - A federal court ruled tonight that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner violated federal election laws by not taking adequate steps to validate the identity of newly registered voters.
The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith called the identification breakdown “a serious problem” and ordered Brunner to immediately comply with federal requirements to match voter registration data with the information in the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Social Security Administration databases. The court accused Brunner of failing to provide county election administrators with “an effective way to access and review mismatches.” She immediately appealed the ruling.
“For some reason, Jennifer Brunner does not want these new registrations checked,” said Ohio Republican Party Deputy Chairman Kevin DeWine. “Her refusal to comply with federal law raises serious concerns about her ability to objectively oversee this election. It’s especially troubling in light of her connection to ACORN and that group’s stunning confession this week of fraudulent registration activity happening right here in Ohio.”
Brunner’s effort to fight the court order comes just two days after the Democrat activist group ACORN admitted to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections that the group engages in fraudulent voter registration activity.
Ohio ACORN officials “blamed the elections board for not scrutinizing ACORN’s suspicious cards,” claiming the group “can’t be expected to catch everything.”
ACORN is facing similar inquires in other Ohio counties as well as 10 other states. Members of the group’s “voter-mobilization arm,” Project Vote, regularly advise Brunner on election strategy, even recently issuing a news release that claims credit for Brunner’s directive restricting challenges to suspected fraudulent voter registrations. Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama also has strong ties to ACORN, working previously as an attorney and “leadership trainer” for the group.
Nevada, where Dallas Cowboy quarterback Tony Romo's name showed up:
Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud.
Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.
The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.
"Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications," Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev.
Secretary of State Ross Miller said the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
"Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4," Miller said.
And there's much more.
Motor Voter should be repealed. Identification must be required to register to vote. And ACORN SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN. In Ohio the group ADMITTED it cannot prevent fraud. The TRUTH is ACORN specializes in voter fraud. For every fraudulent registration discovered how many others go undiscovered? There is no way to know and that's what ACORN is counting on. It's called overwhelming the system.
I think the biggest danger would be in Ohio where you can vote at the moment you register or with absentee ballots. I would think the Board of Elections could easily find duplicate absentee ballots if they were so inclined. I don't really think all these phony voters can actually show up on election day. I think the Acorn activists get paid by each person they supposedly recruit so they are just faking it to get paid.
Posted by: Scott Allan | October 12, 2008 at 09:01 PM
If you go to http://www.sos.state.al.us/downloads/election/vr/nvra-2.pdf on the Alabama Secretary of State website and scroll down the page a bit you will find the State of Alabama Mail-In Voter Registration Form. On that form, near the top of it and above the portion that has to be filled in, you will see the following:
"ID requested: You may send with this application a copy of a current and valid photo identification, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows your name and address."
NOTE that is says "ID requested" instead of "ID required". NOTE ALSO the numerous things that are acceptable to identify applicants, many of which may not actually identify them because they could be forged or documents stolen from a real person's mailbox or trash.
So we know that some form of identification is requested under state law in order to register to vote in Alabama. The problem is that REAL identification isn't required and that there are too many things that will be accepted as identification of the applicant that may not actually identify them.
That leaves wide open the door for voter fraud in our state.
We deserve better than that.
Hopefully Alabamians will DEMAND better than that from our state legislature and the members will comply.
Posted by: Don | October 13, 2008 at 05:30 AM
Another problem is the cost of finding and verifying these fraudulent registrations. It's a racket any way you look at it.
Scott I agree most of the fake voters won't be voting but remember 2000 in Missouri?
Missouri’s secretary of state reported that among 1,384 ballots illegally cast, 62 belonged to felons, 79 were from vacant lot registrations, 86 voted twice, and 14 votes were in the names of dead persons. Of 1,268 applications for court ordered permission to vote, 1,233 were improperly granted to people who had never registered, but gave excuses that allowed them to vote.
Ohio is a problem.
A federal appeals court sided with Ohio's top elections official Friday in her running battle with Republicans over how to verify the eligibility of newly registered voters.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a federal judge's order a day earlier that Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner institute the means to verify voter registration information and make it available to Ohio's 88 county election boards.
Posted by: Julie | October 13, 2008 at 09:21 AM