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September 10, 2009 in Nation/World
11 ACORN workers accused of voter fraud
MIAMI – Eleven people hired to register potential voters in Miami-Dade County before last year’s presidential election were being sought Wednesday, accused of falsifying hundreds of voter registration cards.
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office issued arrest warrants for each of the 11 suspects, all of whom worked for the local chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.
ACORN came under fire during last year’s presidential campaign when Republicans and other conservative groups accused the national organization of committing fraud in its aggressive voter registration efforts in various cities and counties nationwide.
But ACORN officials said they had alerted authorities about the alleged illegal activity among some canvassers in Miami-Dade.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle praised ACORN.
“We’ve been very aggressive about a lot of these cases,” she said. “But we would not have known about these workers unless ACORN brought it to us.
“It’s really minor, ineffectual attempts to justify getting paid on an hourly basis.”
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Washington State arrested Acorn workers for voter registration fraud: “Workers accused of concocting the biggest voter-registration-fraud scheme in state history said they were under pressure from the community-organizing group that hired them to sign up more voters, according to charging papers filed Thursday” (Seattle Times July 2007).
Note: It was the State who discovered this crime and “ACORN agreed to pay King County $25,000 for investigative costs and acknowledged it could be subject to criminal prosecution if fraud occurs again.”
ACORN was only “cooperative” after being caught in Washington State. Several more occurrences in other states for 2008 voter registration and ACORN was not the one to alert authorities to fraud by their workers. Florida is the exception.