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October 13, 2008 ACORN’s voter registration sinks and stinks in Lake CountyPosted: 06:46 PM ET
10/13/08 Conventional thinking says poor people, minorities and the disenfranchised don’t vote because those in power try to make it as difficult as possible for these various groups to vote. That is the reason ACORN, a far-left leaning consortium of community activism, decided this election cycle to aggressively register voters in America’s less affluent neighborhoods. One of those areas is Lake County Indiana. For anyone outside of Indiana, this is Gary, a city of shuttered or crippling along steel mills, vacant store fronts and mostly black faces. Vowing to make sure these forgotten faces get heard, ACORN initially sought to register as many as 45-thousand new voters in Lake County alone. That would have been tremendous given the county has just 300-thousand voters altogether. Even so, when ACORN dropped off its pile of 5,000 new voter registration forms, the elections workers were elated. Both the republican and democratic workers inside the Lake County registrar’s office are excited about each new voter and were indeed hoping this election would be the one that ignited the kind of voter engagement that is our constitutional right. But when they began peeling away the onion, so to speak, it started to rot. The first 2,100 voter applications were deemed fraud the other 2,900 were put aside. Now the Indiana Attorney General is being asked to investigate. ACORN, which ran the voter drive, has tried to say allegations of voter registration fraud against ACORN is just another plot by those in power to keep those out of power from voting. No so. Having looked directly at the applications in question, I can tell you ACORN itself was defrauded by its own workers. Paid to register voters, it appears all the ACORN workers did was fill in any old name, dead, made up or even a name on a fast food restaurant, and collect their pay. Because every voter registration application must legally be reviewed, the workers in the Lake County Election’s office are spending 10 and 12 hour days trying to verify what they know are fake voter registration cards handed in by ACORN. Filed under: Drew Griffin • Special Investigations Unit
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