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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 06:47 PM
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ACORN voter registration recruiter charged with voter registration fraud
Edited on Mon Jan-05-09 06:50 PM by underpants
Source: ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

ST. LOUIS -- A voter registration recruiter working for the group ACORN has been indicted on two felony counts of voter registration fraud.

Deidra Humphrey, 44, of East St. Louis, is expected to appear in U.S. District Court in St. Louis this week after a federal grand jury indicted her on the charges Dec. 31, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

In a statement released Monday afternoon, ACORN said it conducted its own internal investigation into Humphrey's activities and found that she violated the group's operating procedures.
On Sept. 12, ACORN reported its findings to the directors of the St. Louis County Board of Elections.

Humphrey worked for ACORN for 12 days. ACORN said she left because of the internal investigation and before group officials had the chance to fire her.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/EF94B938EB5887338625753500680779?OpenDocument
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 06:56 PM
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1. Aha! So she's the one who got Obama elected..
Sadly, that is what the freepers actually believe. :rofl:
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 07:18 PM
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3. In that corrupt Illinois too
which Obama won by what 20% or something???

:eyes:
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 07:32 PM
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4. East St. Louis?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 07:43 PM
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8. Oops
see post #7
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Michigan-Arizona Donating Member (516 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 07:36 PM
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5. Wouldn't it be East St. Louis, Missouri?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 07:42 PM
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7. My mistake but then McCain won MO anyway by 2,500 votes
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/mo.htm

so it wasn't "Effective" anyway....her 12 days of work :eyes:
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 08:58 PM
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12. Nope. East St. Louis is across the Mississippi in Ill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_St._Louis

East St. Louis is a city located in St. Clair County, Illinois, USA, directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 31,542, less than half its peak in 1959. Like many larger industrial cities, it was severely affected by loss of jobs in the restructuring of the railroad industry and deindustrialization of the Rust Belt in the second half of the 20th century.

Similarly, there is a West New York in NJ, across the Hudson River from you-know-where, and an East Chicago, Ind., just across the city and state line from the Land of Obama.
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wellstone dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 09:45 PM
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13. She must have been in Minnesota too, because there are
people on the MPLS tribune website who swear that ACORN is celebrating tonight.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 07:08 PM
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2. Good. We don't need people like that in our elections process.
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bertman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 07:42 PM
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6. Agreed, sfexpat. Now that they nailed her, Rove should be next. Right?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 07:47 PM
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9. The distinction is that ACORN gets tarred for individuals who misbehave.
Did you catch that part?

ACORN is clean. And with the numbers of people they have to hire to do the work, there will be individuals that break the rules. ACORN goes after them and helps law enforcement prosecute them, as they should.

As an election reform advocate, I applaud ACORN for keeping their operation clean and for their effort to make our elections transparent and successful.
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bertman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 11:42 PM
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15. I agree with you 100%. That's what's so infuriating when we watch the likes of Rove and
his minions walk away scot free after the damage they have done.

Given the number of folks that ACORN registers legitimately, they should be getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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buckrogers1965 Donating Member (515 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 08:38 PM
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10. Rovian dirty trick?
It seems strange that so many corrupt individuals joined just before the elections and turned in suspicious voter registrations.

Especially given the organized way the right wing went after ACORN.

All this happened in a very short time frame too.

It is worth looking at the individuals involved to see what political party they are truly affiliated with.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 08:51 PM
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11. So many? This is the first actual person who has been charged.
She was found out and left the organization within two weeks by ACORN, who started their own investigation. Sounds like a not-very-bright petty thief to me. Sounds like ACORN did exactly the right thing.

Rove made up the rest.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-09 07:11 AM
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16. The article states that she was in some progressive group too
Edited on Tue Jan-06-09 07:13 AM by underpants
but it does stink as a set up

http://www.missouriprovote.org/Home.asp

I thought the same thing.
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-09 10:54 PM
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14. They oughtta throw the book at her.
Meanwhile, were any voters disenfranchised? The article didn't say.

Did anyone vote twice? Not a word.

Did Mickey Mouse or the neighborhood dog cast a vote? Unlikely.

If you weren't convinced of Republican efforts to suppress the vote, their near-pointless and fanatical reaction to ACORN should tip you off.
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katmandu2007 Donating Member (12 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-09 03:13 PM
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17. I worked for ACORN once
while at college. I did community organizing. The paycheck bounced, and I was never reimbursed.
Three weeks of work never paid. I don't trust them.
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