Suspect Voter Cards Found (St Louis)

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/politics/story/A18B344BD635A996862572040017C0A5?OpenDocument

St. Louis Election Board officials say they've discovered at least 1,492 "potentially fraudulent" voter registration cards - including three from dead people and one from a 16-year-old - among the thousands pouring in before today's voter registration deadline for the Nov. 7 election.

City Republican elections director Scott Leiendecker said the board's staff expects to find even more bogus voter-registration applications among the thousands remaining to be processed. The board plans to turn all the questionable cards over to city Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce for investigation and possible prosecution, said board chairman Kimberley Mathis.

The board says all the questionable cards were turned in by one group - the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, commonly known as ACORN.

ACORN's voter-registration collections have come under fire in recent weeks in several states, including Ohio and Pennsylvania. Mellor and national ACORN communications director Kevin Whelan said that most of the allegations have turned out to be unfounded. Mellor detailed the findings of various investigations into ACORN's 2004 voter-registration activities that he said also turned up no wrongdoing.

In St. Louis three years ago, the city Election Board reported finding more than 1,000 suspicious voter registration cards turned in by ACORN. No one appears to have been prosecuted in that case, although Joyce's office has obtained convictions regarding fraudulent voter-registration cards turned in by people working for other, now-defunct groups.

If there are ANY Dem organizations doing crap like this it needs to be soundly rejected and dealt with NOW!

I'm sure that the final look at this will show it's more republican BS. Since Acorn is an organization that registers poor people they have been a long time republican target.

It's the Election Board's job to do what they're doing: Checking the cards for accuracy and eligibility. I note this press release is real definite on the number of "potentially fraudulent" cards, but decidedly less definite on the total number submitted, only saying it's over 40,000. My math says 1,500 "potentially fraudulent" registrations out of 40,000 submitted is a rate of less than 4%, which I deem not too bad.

My guess is that the real problem the Republicans see in ACORN's registration drive is not the 1,500 "potentially fraudulent" registrations; it's the 38,500 people newly registered who are going to the polls perhaps for the first time. And you don't change your behavior or do something new because you like the way things are going.

the 16 year old didnt even know she was registered to vote until she got verification in the mail. Someone had filled out a form with all her information correct, but with a different address. Who did that, and why?

Something must be going on. It wouldn't surprise one bit if their is a paidrepublican mole doing this crap to say "aha, voter fraud!"

caught.