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RE: [glennbeck-wi] Fwd: Former ACORN Worker Found Guilty of Election Fraud

From:	Larry Kaufmann
Sent on:	Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:12 PM

Hey, it’s just not that big a deal, why are you getting so worked up? And it just goes to show how capitalism corrupts everything it touches – even something as pure, wholesome and virtuous as ACORN (not to mention tolerant…you wanna open a brothel staffed with underage Latin American girls? Sounds great! Let me show you how to fill out the paperwork)

Of course, as you say, there is this little contradiction about why they used monetary incentives to motivate behavior in the first place, but I’m sure they’ve got some Harvard-educated lawyer (now working as a community organizer) writing up a perfectly reasonable explanation….

From: [address removed] [mailto:[address removed]] On Behalf Of Roberto Dean
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:49 AM
To: [address removed]
Subject: RE: [glennbeck-wi] Fwd: Former ACORN Worker Found Guilty of Election Fraud

OK… sooooooo let me get this straight. It's OK to cheat in order to satisfy a performance based compensation scheme, which by the way… wreaks of a capitalistic technique for rewarding hard and creative work which… is the very thing that both ACORN and any blue blooded Lib/Progressive is trying to abolish?

Now, did I get that right?

From: [address removed] [mailto:[address removed]] On Behalf Of Larry Kaufmann
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:35 AM
To: [address removed]
Subject: RE: [glennbeck-wi] Fwd: Former ACORN Worker Found Guilty of Election Fraud

They argue that they do it for money – apparently ACORN pays a fee per signature. Which gives whole new meaning to the Chicago-way expression “pay for play”

From: [address removed] [mailto:[address removed]] On Behalf Of Roberto Dean
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:28 AM
To: [address removed]
Subject: RE: [glennbeck-wi] Fwd: Former ACORN Worker Found Guilty of Election Fraud

"and that padding the voter registration rolls with fake voters doesn’t matter anyway" <--- Great argument! If doesn't really matter then why do it? Seems like a pretty big risk to take just because it doesn't matter.

From: [address removed] [mailto:[address removed]] On Behalf Of Larry Kaufmann
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 10:14 AM
To: [address removed]
Subject: RE: [glennbeck-wi] Fwd: Former ACORN Worker Found Guilty of Election Fraud

Thanks Kirsten. If you ever read left-of-center websites (I force myself to read TalkingPointsMemo, a little, every day), you will see that they often put scare quotes around the words voter fraud, as if this is just another right-wing fantasy. They also contend that prosecuting voter fraud is tantamount to voter suppression and intimidation, and that padding the voter registration rolls with fake voters doesn’t matter anyway because simply registering as a fake voter doesn’t translate into actual fake votes (as if questionable absentee ballots haven’t decided actual races, or that it’s impossible for someone to show up at a polling place, pretend to be a fake voter, get a ballot and vote).

I know, it’s hard to believe anyone would just laugh off or try to explain away voter fraud, but that’s what they do….and stories like this show this is a real problem, and the people who engage in it are flat-out criminal. Thank God AG Van Hollen is taking this seriously and (hopefully) getting these crooks thrown in the slammer.

From: [address removed] [mailto:[address removed]] On Behalf Of Kirsten L
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:43 AM
To: [address removed]
Subject: [glennbeck-wi] Fwd: Former ACORN Worker Found Guilty of Election Fraud

Well, my guess is that the people who told them that this sort of behavior was acceptable are still running around, paying no price whatsoever. But at least this sends a message that people are watching.

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From: "Churchill, Jolene" <[address removed]>

Date: August 25, 2010 9:33:50 AM CDT

Subject: Former ACORN Worker Found Guilty of Election Fraud

Video -

http://maciverinstitute.com/2010/08/former-acorn-worker-pleads-guilty-to-vote-fraud-in-milwaukee/

From: Cosh, William A. [mailto:[address removed]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 3:53 PM
To: Cosh, William A - DOJ
Subject: A.G. VAN HOLLEN NEWS/Former ACORN Worker Found Guilty of Election Fraud

J.B. VAN HOLLEN

ATTORNEY GENERAL

NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release For More Information Contact:

August 24, 2010 Bill Cosh [masked]

FORMER ACORN WORKER FOUND GUILTY OF ELECTION FRAUD

MILWAUKEE – Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that Maria Miles, a former ACORN worker, pleaded guilty to and was convicted of one count of election fraud – falsely procuring voter registration, arising out of the November 4, 2008, Presidential Election. Miles was charged by the Election Fraud Task Force, a collaborative effort between the Wisconsin Department of Justice, the Milwaukee District Attorney’s Office and the Milwaukee Police Department.

According to the criminal complaint, Miles served as a Special Registration Deputy (“SRD”) for the City of Milwaukee in advance of the 2008 Presidential Election and worked for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (“ACORN”). By entering a plea of guilty today, Miles admitted to submitting multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals, and also being part of a scheme in which she and other SRDs registered each other to vote multiple times in order to meet voter registration quotas imposed by ACORN.

Miles is charged in the same complaint as Kevin Clancy, also a former ACORN worker. Clancy’s case is scheduled for a guilty plea hearing on September 22, 2010, at 8:30 a.m.

The charge against Miles, a Class I felony, carries a potential penalty of imprisonment up to 3 ½ years and a $10,000 fine. She is scheduled to be sentenced on October 15, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. before Judge Richard Sankovitz.

Prior to the November 2008 election, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm announced the creation of the Election Fraud Task Force, a multi-jurisdictional action team that evaluates, investigates and prosecutes complaints of electoral fraud. The Wisconsin Department of Justice and the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office work cooperatively with local law enforcement and the Milwaukee Police Department as needed when investigation is required.

Assistant Attorney General David W. Maas is representing the State.

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