Post by Barefoot In Kailua on Oct 3, 2004 12:00:48 GMT -5
Pro-Democrat Vote Fraud Probed in Florida
Hundreds of Republican voters have been disenfranchised in Florida as part of a Democrats-only voter registration drive sponsored by a national civil rights group, according to new allegations that are at the center of an investigation by the state's Election Division and the U.S. Justice Department.
A field director for ACORN, one of the many pro-Democratic Party organizations trying to register new voters in the state, has told investigators that efforts rig votes for the 2004 election were "routine," according to the newspaper Florida Today.
"There was a lot of fraud committed," said Mac Stuart, former Miami-Dade field director for ACORN. Among his allegations -- that ACORN "quality control" workers routinely kicked back Republican voter registrations while paying for Democratic ones, using the excuse that "they had enough" new voters for the GOP.
Stuart said the "boxes" of Republican voter registration cards were tossed while "thousands of invalid voter registration cards" were submitted in their place.
The former ACORN director said his group "eagerly sought" to register convicted felons, even though they're not allowed to vote under Florida law. Still, he recalled setting up registration tables outside the Miami police department and Dade County jail.
"We targeted them because ACORN had a goal: 103,000 new registrations from Dade County," Stuart told Florida Today.*
AUDACIOUS SNAKES!! THROW THEM IN JAIL!
Hundreds of Republican voters have been disenfranchised in Florida as part of a Democrats-only voter registration drive sponsored by a national civil rights group, according to new allegations that are at the center of an investigation by the state's Election Division and the U.S. Justice Department.
A field director for ACORN, one of the many pro-Democratic Party organizations trying to register new voters in the state, has told investigators that efforts rig votes for the 2004 election were "routine," according to the newspaper Florida Today.
"There was a lot of fraud committed," said Mac Stuart, former Miami-Dade field director for ACORN. Among his allegations -- that ACORN "quality control" workers routinely kicked back Republican voter registrations while paying for Democratic ones, using the excuse that "they had enough" new voters for the GOP.
Stuart said the "boxes" of Republican voter registration cards were tossed while "thousands of invalid voter registration cards" were submitted in their place.
The former ACORN director said his group "eagerly sought" to register convicted felons, even though they're not allowed to vote under Florida law. Still, he recalled setting up registration tables outside the Miami police department and Dade County jail.
"We targeted them because ACORN had a goal: 103,000 new registrations from Dade County," Stuart told Florida Today.*
AUDACIOUS SNAKES!! THROW THEM IN JAIL!
