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ACORN Under Fire

By Antonio D. French

Filed Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 9:09 AM

The Post-Dispatch's Jo Mannies is reporting that nearly 1,500 voter registration cards turned in recently by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) have been flagged as "potentially fraudulent" by the St. Louis Board of Elections.

This latest controversy comes just a week after we reported that several ACORN employees claimed they were instructed to tell people to vote for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill when they were registering new voters and performing GOTV activities on behalf of the Give Missourians a Raise committee.



Thanks to Mannies for mentioning our report in her story.

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6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is this a secret? ACORN campaigns for Dems all over the nation and I guess they made the mistake of hiring a turncoat, but these are just allegations. That’s politics, and in St. Louis, like most cities, it is a dirty game. I used to work for them in St. Louis and New York and they have their pluses and minuses; but overall they are the main organization that still exists to galvanize the working-class on issue of class, which the Democratic Party is ignoring, and the ill-effects of eminent-domain and gentrification, which the good Urbanists of the city tend to be on the other side of that debate.

10/11/2006 10:16 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nice! You were able to post this article right next to a Talent Campaign ad. I bet Jim's very grateful.

10/11/2006 10:21 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You are missing a big piece of the puzzle.

10/11/2006 10:35 AM

 
Blogger Doug Duckworth said...

The solution to voter fraud is obviously poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses.

The more barriers we create to voting the less chance of fraud!

We are building fences on our borders and on our democratic system. What a country!

10/11/2006 10:59 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is this publication paid for by the GOP? No wonder circulation is low. Try reporting both sides of the story instead of giving views for shock value and credible reporters may stop thinking of this as a RAG.

10/12/2006 12:46 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you think that what they was anything short of criminal then you are part of the problem. Channel 5 interviewed a 16 year old girl who was a registered by acorn to vote. If you think that St. Louis can keep getting these black eyes and not become more of a laughing stock then you are nuts. Even Ali ended up punch drunk. The fact that Antonio covered this story has nothing to do with his politics, I am sure of that. These people are WHAT IS WRONG WITH ST. LOUIS!!!

TRouble

10/12/2006 8:48 PM

 

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