ACORN illegally registers over 1000 voters in Indiana
From Ballotpedia
October 9, 2008
Allegations of voter registration fraud for 4,700 new voter applications turned in to Lake County officials by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which bills itself as "the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities."[1]
Board of Elections investigates
Sally LaSota, director of the Lake County Board of Elections and Voter Registration, said all of the applications submitted by ACORN are being scrutinized after officials found many with the names of deceased residents or suspicious names such as Jimmy Johns, the name of a sub sandwich franchise. Republican Ruthann Hoagland, the board's assistant registration administrator, to track the ACORN applications.[2]
"One of the glaring problems," Hoagland said, "was that several were done with the same handwriting and signatures, sometimes in a very distinctive style."[2] In a group of 50 applications she reviewed earlier this week, the listed phone numbers on 48 were nonexistent or out of service, and the other two were for businesses "that had no idea what we were talking about when we called to check on their registration," she said.
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