U.S. Attorney Investigating ACORN
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October 28, 2008
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U.S. Attorney Investigating ACORN in Philadelphia. Of the applications turned in by ACORN, almost 8,000 are questionable and 1,500 have already been turned over to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation into possible voter registration fraud. Philadelphia Deputy Election Commissioner Fred Voight has told reporters that the way many of ACORN's applications were collected is the source of their concern. ACORN attorney Kathryn Simpson asserts there are safeguards in place to prevent voter fraud. [1]
Other problems in Pennsylvania
ACORN turned in 78,376 voter applications from April 28, 2008 through Oct. 6, 2008, 6,962 have been rejected to date. 80,000 applications (from ACORN and other sources) were duplicate applications and have been rejected. ACORN has been involved in other voter registration controversies in Pennsylvania. In Dauphin County on July 24, Dauphin County detectives offered a $2,000 reward for information about the whereabouts of Luis R. Torres-Serrano, an ACORN worker, who was accused of submitting more than 100 fraudulent voter registrations. Jemar Barksdale, a former ACORN employee Oct. 21, was arrested in Delaware County on felony theft and forgery charges for allegedly submitting dozens of phony voter-registration applications.
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