Voter Fraud in Seattle - ACORN

ACORN is a corrupt organization and another of its "peccadilloes" just surfaced in Seattle. From KOMO-TV/AP:

7 charged with voter registration fraud
King County prosecutors filed felony charges Thursday against seven people in what a top official described as the worst case of voter-registration fraud in state history, while the organization they worked for agreed to keep a better eye on its employees and pay $25,000 to defray costs of the investigation.

The seven submitted about 1,800 registration cards last fall on behalf of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which had hired them at $8 an hour to sign people up to vote, according to charging documents filed in Superior Court.

Secretary of State Sam Reed told a news conference it was clearly Washington's most serious instance of voter registration fraud.

"This was an act of vandalism upon the voter rolls of King County," said Dan Satterberg, the interim King County prosecutor.

But the King County officials did some backpedaling on this:

Satterberg, Reed and other officials stressed that the defendants were motivated by financial gain rather than any desire to toy with the outcome of an election. They said that in one sense, ACORN was victimized because it paid for voter-registration work that was never performed.

But in interviews with King County Sheriff's Detective Chris Johnson, several of the defendants - while freely admitting they forged the forms - insisted that they had been told ACORN would shut down their office in Tacoma if they didn't improve their numbers, Johnson wrote in a probable cause statement.

One, Ryan Olson, said another worker in the office told him "do what you have to do" to turn in more cards.

ACORN's oversight of the workers was virtually nonexistent - to the extent that civil charges could have been warranted, Satterberg said.

ACORN is a welfare pimp, getting low-income people on the dole instead of getting them motivated and educated to get better jobs. Their clients are traditionally democratic voters. "rather than any desire to toy with the outcome of an election" indeed. For a good insight into their organization, check out Rotten Acorn Googling ACORN Corruption turns up 284,000 hits, a bunch of which are not related but about 1/3 are -- which for any organization would be really bad...