ACORN employees tell FBI of deliberate election fraud, according to new documents
06/10/2010
Matthew Vadum
Contributor
The
radical activist group ACORN “works” for the Democratic Party and
deliberately promotes election fraud, ACORN employees told FBI
investigators, according to an FBI document dump Wednesday.
The documents obtained
by Judicial Watch, a watchdog group, are FBI investigators’ reports
related to the 2007 investigation and arrest of eight St. Louis, Mo.,
workers from ACORN’s Project Vote affiliate for violation of election
laws. All eight employees involved in the scandal later pleaded guilty
to voter registration fraud.
Project
Vote is ACORN’s voter registration arm. Project Vote continues to
operate despite the reported dissolution of the national structure of
ACORN.
The
handwritten reports by FBI agents show that ACORN employees reported
numerous irregularities in the nonprofit group’s business practices.
One employee told the FBI that ACORN headquarters is “wkg [working] for the Democratic Party.”
According
to one report, an ACORN employee said the purpose of “[f]raudulent
cards” was “[t]o cause confusion on election day to keep polls open
longer,” “[t]o allow people who can’t vote to vote,” and “[t]o allow to
vote multiple times.”
Another
report quotes an employee saying, “Project Vote will pay them whether
cards fake or not – whatever they had to do to get the cards was
attitude.” Project Vote pays based on the number of cards and “that’s
why they were so reckless,” the report says.
A
report quotes an employee saying, “I don’t like our system. I don’t
think we should do voter registration.” The report also notes that
employees were “[c]onstantly threatened” and that the staff were
“instructed on what to say to FBI.”
Another
report indicates an employee told the investigator, that ACORN “[t]old
employees not to talk to the FBI.” The FBI is “‘trying to intimidate
you.’”
“These
documents show the need for a national criminal investigation by the
Obama Justice Department into ACORN,” said Tom Fitton, president of
Judicial Watch.
“Is
Attorney General [Eric] Holder doing nothing because of Obama’s close
connections to ACORN and Project Vote? The information in these new
documents has national implications that cry out for further
investigation,” Fitton said.
President Obama’s ties to ACORN go back to the 1980s.
“ACORN
noticed him when he was organizing on the far south side of the city
with the Developing Communities Project,” according to Toni Foulkes,
a former member of ACORN’s national board. From 1985 to 1988 Obama ran
the Developing Communities Project from an office located in Chicago’s
Holy Rosary Church.
Tags: ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Ben Smith, Community organizing, Democratic Party, Democrats, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Illinois, Matthew Vadum, Missouri, Politics, Washington
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