INDIANA SECRETARY OF STATE TURNS OVER EVIDENCE OF ACORN FRAUD TO THE FBI

There will be much more of this to come...

Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita submitted 100 hours worth of investigative work to the FBI and prosecutors requesting an investigation of the voter advocacy group ACORN.

Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter confirms there have been allegations of voter registration fraud in Lake County.

Rokita said 1,400 application submitted by ACORN violated Indiana election laws.

Long lines inside the County-City building are indicative of the growing popularity of early voting across the state, including Lake County, where hour-long waits are the norm.

Across the nation, the number of early voters has surged, and so have the problems.

"There have been a number of allegations about fraud in the registration process," said Carter.

Rokita has requested a criminal investigation in Lake County. He determined from 1,438 applications submitted by ACORN:

# 61 percent showed one or more indications of fraud or forgery
# 54 percent had no verifiable information
# 30 percent featured incorrect, incomplete or illegible information

"Unfortunately, Lake County has a history of vote fraud," said Carter. "It's very important that we have elections that are full of integrity and people believe that it's a fair process."

Rokita said despite claims from ACORN that it brought this matter to the attention of election officials, he indicated, "Clearly, ACORN representatives continued to submit applications they knew to be fraudulent to voter registration officials."

ACORN AND OHIO VOTER FRAUD

Wake the hell up America! People died for your right to vote! And you stand idly by and watch this happen. The hope and changelings must be stopped!!!

"IS ACORN STEALING THE ELECTION?"

So asks Investor Business Daily. Welcome to the fight my nerdy money counting brothers.

The group's voter-registration fraud is rampant, and authorities plan a nationwide sweep of ACORN offices to collect records.

In Nevada, state officials say the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team, including quarterback Tony Romo.

"Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada," Secretary of State Ross Miller said, "and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4."

While those names will be flagged on Election Day, felonious voters may have better luck using other cutouts. Nevada, along with several other key battleground states, requires no ID to vote.

In North Carolina, where Obama has been running nonstop ads, ACORN has registered a record number of new voters, many of them suspicious. Statewide, Democrats are doing better than the GOP in new converts — even in traditionally Republican counties.

There have been 218,749 newly registered Democrats in North Carolina since January — more than five times the 38,337 new Republicans, state records show.

The numbers show a startlingly close political battle even in Republican-dominated Union County, with 4,233 new voters registering as Democrats and 4,362 as Republicans. In previous election years, new Republicans have outnumbered Democrats 2-to-1 in the fast-growing Charlotte-area county.

In Missouri, one ACORN registrant named Monica Rays showed up on no less than eight forms, all bearing the same signature.

In Kansas City, 15,000 registrations have been questioned, and last year four ACORN employees were indicted for fraud.

In addition, ACORN officials have also been indicted in Wisconsin and Colorado. Investigations against others are active in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

ACORN has also been registering convicted felons — including inmates — in Florida and other battleground states. ACORN boasts registering a record 1.5 million new voters so far this election.

What does all this have to do with Obama, besides the fact that he'd be the beneficiary of most, if not all, of these new votes?

For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for "advance work.")

What's more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN's voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992. Joined by two other community organizers on Chicago's South Side, Obama conducted the voter-registration drive that helped elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the Senate that year.

The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal "Motor Voter" law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud.

McCain would be wise to start preparing a challenge to voter registration rolls should he lose the race in a close contest. He'd be crazy not to contest the results in light of these events.

IS OBAMA'S OCTOBER SURPRISE HIS PLANNED NOVEMBER SURPRISE?

All across the country, Obama's former community organization, ACORN, is being busted for voter fraud centering around fictitious voter registrations. On Tuesday, FBI agents raided ACORN's Nevada office after it was suspected that ACORN was creating fictitious voter registrations for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys. Yesterday, it was learned that Indianapolis, Indiana had registered 105% of its eligible voter population. Acorn just happens to have an office in that city. And that's just a drop in the bucket. Missouri officials are also investigating ACORN for voter fraud. And so are Indiana officials.

Recently reports have surfaced that Obama himself has given ACORN more than $800,000 during his campaign to "get out the vote". Contributions which Obama conveniently "forgot" to report. As reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review:

Jim Terry, spokesman for a group that tracks ACORN, said Citizens Services Inc.'s involvement in the Obama campaign raises bigger questions.

"All of this just seems like an awful lot of money and time spent on political campaigning for an organization that purports to exist to help low-income consumers," said Terry, chief public advocate for Consumers Rights League, a Washington, D.C., advocacy outfit with a libertarian outlook.

"ACORN has a long and sordid history of employing convoluted Enron-style accounting to illegally use taxpayer funds for their own political gain," Terry claimed. "Now it looks like ACORN is using the same type of convoluted accounting scheme for Obama's political gain."

A Trib analysis of campaign finance reports showed Obama paid CSI for services that stood out as unusual. For example, CSI received payments of $63,000 and $75,000 for advance work. Excluding the large payments to CSI, the average amount the Obama campaign spent with other organizations was $558.82 per check on more than 1,200 entries classified as advance work.

Citizens Services Inc. is headquartered at the same address as ACORN's national headquarters in New Orleans. Citizens Services was established in December 2004 to "assist persons and organizations who advance the interests of low- and moderate-income people," according to paperwork filed in Louisiana. In a 2006 ACORN publication, Citizen Services Inc. is described as "ACORN's campaign services entity."

Accusations of voter fraud have followed ACORN's canvassing projects in about a dozen states. ACORN has dismissed the charges as politically motivated allegations from conservative groups, yet cases are pending and, in other cases, ACORN workers have entered guilty pleas. For example, three ACORN workers pleaded guilty to submitting phony voter registration forms in Washington, and eight ACORN employees pleaded guilty to federal election fraud in Missouri.

Michelle Malkin dug even deeper:

FEC reports show that from February-May 2008, Obama paid $832,598.29 to CSI.

The payments were for:

$310,441.20 25-FEB-08 STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING
$160,689.40 27-FEB-08 STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING
$98,451.20 29-FEB-08 TRAVEL/LODGING
$74,578.01 13-MAR-08 STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING
$18,417.00 28-MAR-08 POLLING
$18,633.60 29-APR-08 STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING
$63,000.00 29-APR-08 ADVANCE WORK
$105.84 02-MAY-08 LICENSE FEES
$105.84 02-MAY-08 LICENSE FEES
$75,000.00 17-MAY-08 ADVANCE WORK
$13,176.20 17-MAY-08 PER DIEM

Interesting services and payments for a nonprofit that supposedly does simple canvassing work on behalf of low-income people. And now, the Obama campaign is going to wave its magic wand and change those services to get-out-the-vote work? What the…?

It's just a matter of time before someone really gets to the bottom of this whole story. As revelations of ACORN's illegal activity continues to mount, it will be more publicly known of Obama's connection to the very community organization he once worked for and so generously donates to. And Obama's November voter fraud surprise could very well be his October surprise.

There is only one way this story makes it to the mainstream media. You have two pressure your local politicians to investigate. So do it!

PRO-OBAMA MUSLIM GROUP MAY BE BREAKING THE LAW WITH VOTER REGISTRATION

Super secret foreign internet donations and now this? Obama is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

A leading critic of Islam isn't surprised there has been virtually no coverage or action taken against a Muslim group that has been running an illegal "get out the vote" campaign in swing-state mosques.

The group, Muslim Americans for Obama [MAFO], insists that all of its voter registration activity is non-partisan, despite the fact that its mission statement says it was launched in August 2008 "to provide a vehicle for Muslim-American supporters of Barack Obama to organize and mobilize our fellow citizens to get out the vote to elect Barack Obama the next president of the United States."

Continuing, the group's website states: "Although there is only a short period of time until the election..., there is much work to be done for supporters of Barack Obama's candidacy. [MAFO] was formed to offer a vehicle for Muslim-Americans to mobilize quickly and effectively so that our community turns out in great numbers for Barack Obama on Election Day."

Robert Spencer is director of Jihad Watch, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He argues MAFO may be skirting the law.

"When they are running these voter registration drives at mosques, really it's essentially illegal because they are clearly trying to get people to vote for Obama -- and that's in violation of their tax-exempt status," Spencer charges. "So this is a group that is crossing the line and ought to be disciplined as such."