Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and Secretary of State Ross Miller today announced the filing of criminal charges against the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now Inc. (ACORN) and two of its employees for compensating their employees to register voters based upon a corporate mandated quote system.    

The complaint includes 26 counts of Compensation for Registration of Voters, a Category E felony in violation of NRS 293.805 and 13 counts of Principle to the Crime of Compensation for Registration of Voters, also a Category E felony, in violation of NRS 293.805 and NRS 195.020.

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ACORN Voter Fraud in NM

More Acorn Voter Fraud Comes to Light

Democrats are split on how to deal with Acorn, the liberal "community organizing" group that deployed thousands of get-out-the-vote workers last election. State and city Democratic officials -- who've been contending with its many scandals -- are moving against it. Washington Democrats are still sweeping Acorn abuses under a rug.

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I’ve been using Twitter for a couple of months now and want to make some observations.  I see Twitter as being very useful in getting information out and seeing information.  But I think it has all changed from the way it was designed.  One thing I see is people following and being followed be a lot of people.  Now mind you I am only following and am being following by a little over 100 but in saying that I am finding that those people that I really enjoy reading their tweets are getting lost with Tweets that I really don’t care about.  Now don’t get me wrong I think it’s a good thing to have a lot of people following you but how can one person keep up with thousands or perhaps as I’ve seen over 10,000 Twitters.  

At this point I think I will trim down my 100 plus people that I follow to those that I really want to follow and of course keep those who wish to follow me.

This is not to say that I don’t follow a large group of Twitterers.  I find I can follow a lot of Twitterers by using a hashtag like #nascar or #teaparty  or #wx alert.   By entering any one of those tags in the search function on my Twitter page I can follow everyone that puts #tcot on their Tweet.   In fact it doesn’t even have to be a hashtag.  You can search on any term and pull up all the tweets for that term.  Now it gets better.   By using something like Twitzap you can keep up with your own tweets and other people’s   tweets as well as any search term or hashtag.  

So I don’t really see the need to follow so many people to where the people that I am interested in get lost.    

7 Pa. ACORN workers facing voter-form charges

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Authorities in western Pennsylvania have accused seven people who worked for the community group ACORN of falsifying voter-registration forms.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009;

Charges of Voter-Registration Fraud

Guilty Pleas in Ohio Voter Fraud - A Warning to States, Parties and Candidates

From the Columbus Dispatch, three staffers for Vote Today Ohio have plead guilty to illegally registering and voting in Columbus during the so-called Golden Week - a seven day period when Ohio residents could register to vote and cast a ballot at the same time.

This will likely be a footnote it what was a monumental disaster perpetrated by the Ohio Secretary of State and supporters of Barack Obama.  But it highlights three important realities:

• The extreme vulnerability of Election Day Registration
• The enormous influence one highly partisan election official can have on the process
• The need to invest in ballot security programs

For those who have forgotten, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner unilaterally re-interpreted Ohio Election statutes governing the overlap of the voter registration deadline and the start of early vote to create a de-facto seven day window of Election Day Registration whereby residents could fill out an application and immediately cast a vote.

She ordered the unprepared and understaffed County Election Boards to set-up voting centers that would ensure a massive turnout. Then Brunner amazingly banned all pollwatchers from the vote centers.  Chaos without witnesses.

Many County Election Boards balked and the Ohio Republican Party unsuccessfully sued to stop her, but it was too late.

From the beginning, stories of fraud and misconduct were widely reported.  The Obama Campaign, ACORN, Vote Today Ohio, and Vote From Home were all linked to voter fraud during Golden Week. See here, here, here, here here here here here here here here 

But, as is the case when elections aren’t close, Obama’s victory overshadowed the widespread fraud of Election 2008.  But it happened in Ohio and it happened on a much larger scale then what is being reflected by three guilty pleas.  It will be interesting to see if any of the other groups named above will face similar charges.

This should be a wake up call to any state that is considering EDR without significant safeguards in place,  any political party that isn’t heavily investing in Secretary of State races, and any campaign that doesn’t have a ballot security program. 

The three who plead guilty are:

Amy Little, 50, of New York. (Ms. Little was a consultant for Congressman John Hall (D-NY) until news broke in October that she illegally voted).

Daniel Hausman, 32, of New York.

Yolanda Hipplesteele, 30, of California.

 

Newark campaign worker is indicted on election-fraud charges by Chris Megerian/Statehouse Bureau

Monday March 23, 2009, 9:03 PM

A Newark campaign worker was indicted today for changing votes on absentee ballots he collected during New Jersey's 2007 legislative election.

Antonio Santana, 58, allegedly unsealed three ballots and changed the votes to Democratic candidates. The forgery was discovered by the voters, all members of the same family, when their ballots were accidentally returned by the Post Office.

 

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/03/election_fraud.html

Election Fraud in Kentucky

I think this is the first documented case of election fraud in the U.S. using electronic voting machines (there have been lots of documented cases of errors and voting problems, but this one involves actual maliciousness):

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