Nevada files voter fraud charges against ACORN
[quote]WASHINGTON — Nevada's attorney general on Monday filed criminal charges accusing liberal community activist group ACORN and two of its employees of facilitating voter registration fraud in November's election by requiring canvassers to submit 20 applications each day or face termination.
The group stressed that it instigated the inquiry by turning over to the Clark County, Nev. , registrar the names of 44 workers who were fired for submitting bogus registration forms and that it ordered an employee to stop offering bonuses to workers who turned in more than the daily goal of 20 forms. "There was no firm quota," spokesman Scott Levenson said.
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Clark County Registrar Larry Lomax said that ACORN canvassers submitted 91,002 registration forms last year, resulting in 62,905 new registrations after the elimination of duplicates and questionable applications.
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Whats that? 34% of their submissions were duplicate and/or "questionable" applications?
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The Nevada complaint alleges 26 counts of "Compensation for Registration of Voters," which it called a felony under state law.
"By structuring employment and compensation around a quota system, ACORN facilitated voter registration fraud in this state," Attorney General Masto said. She alleged that the group's training manuals "clearly detail, condone and, indeed, require illegal acts."
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Interesting indeed.
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"If somebody got 17 (applications) every day, their job was pretty secure," he said. "What we were obviously concerned about is making sure people actually worked. If a canvasser came in every day with two registration forms . . . that was a problem."
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Why? If thats all there were who desired to and could legally, voluntarily register?
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Michael Slater , executive director of Project Vote, a national registration group that's funded ACORN's canvassing, said he was "shocked" that ACORN now faces a criminal case while no charges were brought against the 44 ex-workers to whom the group alerted authorities.
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Maybe the authorities caught on. I wonder how their HR dept hires finds so many people who purportedly choose to do these illegal acts on their own. Whats the total number of employees that they willfully hired and have, after the fact, turned in? This seem like a systemic problem within the organization.