When are these folks gonna be charged with something:
Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote in Florida this summer.
Orange County elections officials rejected his application, which was stamped with the logo of the nonprofit group ACORN.
Tow truck driver Newton Bell did register to vote in Orange County this summer. In the hands of ACORN, his paperwork went through without a hitch.
Two cases, two outcomes, each with a connection to ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The article explains that this isn’t ACORN, but a few ACORN renegades, doing their own thing. You see, this isn’t the way ACORN does things. You’ve got to understand. This is like Wal-Mart.
“Some percentage of Wal-Mart workers try to get paid without doing their work or steal from their employer,” he said.
Some ACORN workers, he said, have simply made up names.
The Gay Patriot has a state by state breakdown of the ACORN voter fraud. It’s almost as big as Wal-Mart anyway. You’ve got a 7 year old registered in Connecticut, 30,000 felons registered in Florida, not to mention that 66% of those registered in Florida by ACORN are already registered. In Indiana, the first 2,100 out of 5,000 registrations turned in by ACORN were found to be bogus. And do we need to go over the Dallas Cowboys being registered to vote in Nevada?
This seems to be bigger than a few employees doing nefarious things. This is what we call a “pattern.” A question I hear asked often is, “When are they going to be charged under the RICO Act?”
The RICO Act is:
Under RICO, a person who is a member of an enterprise that has committed any two of 35 crimes—27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes—within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and/or sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count. In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of “racketeering activity.” RICO also permits a private individual harmed by the actions of such an enterprise to file a civil suit; if successful, the individual can collect treble damages.
This is clearly fraud, which is one of the 35 crimes, but what is the second crime? How about obstruction of justice? Let’s at least get a federal investigation into the group. A Republican is still in charge of the Justice Department, right? They have over 112,000 people there. Could you spare a few to look into this, please?
UPDATE:
Ace of Spades first reported that the Ohio Attorney General was going to file RICO charges against ACORN. That has changed a bit:
Damnit. In all likelihood this is not as great as first reported. So yes, I am aware that this is very disappointing. I am disappointed too. I didn’t mislead or make a mistake; that was the information I had.
I also can’t say for sure the old headline is wrong, but it strongly appears that way at the moment.
