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ACORN office in Vegas raided

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

During the debate last year over Crawford v. Marion County Election Bd., No. 07-21, it was common for opponents of voter ID to claim that voting fraud was essentially nonexistent and that the ID requirement was concocted to harass poor people out of voting. From Las Vegas comes this story to remind us that the crime of voter fraud is quite real and remains a problem. "Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN [Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now] is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names." And before anyone claims this is a "vast right-wing conspiracy" effort due to Barack Obama's association with ACORN, note that the Nevada Secretary of State is a Democrat.

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on October 07, 2008 (boomark / email).