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(a) Designation

    (1) Each State shall designate agencies for the registration of
voters in elections for Federal office.
    (2) Each State shall designate as voter registration agencies--
        (A) all offices in the State that provide public assistance; and
        (B) all offices in the State that provide State-funded programs
    primarily engaged in providing services to persons with
    disabilities.

    (3)(A) In addition to voter registration agencies designated under
paragraph (2), each State shall designate other offices within the State
as voter registration agencies.
    (B) Voter registration agencies designated under subparagraph (A)
may include--
        (i) State or local government offices such as public libraries,
    public schools, offices of city and county clerks (including
    marriage license bureaus), fishing and hunting license bureaus,
    government revenue offices, unemployment compensation offices, and
    offices not described in paragraph (2)(B) that provide services to
    persons with disabilities; and
        (ii) Federal and nongovernmental offices, with the agreement of
    such offices.

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(5) A person who provides service described in paragraph (4) shall
not--
        (A) seek to influence an applicant's political preference or
    party registration;
        (B) display any such political preference or party allegiance;
        (C) make any statement to an applicant or take any action the
    purpose or effect of which is to discourage the applicant from
    registering to vote; or
        (D) make any statement to an applicant or take any action the
    purpose or effect of which is to lead the applicant to believe that
    a decision to register or not to register has any bearing on the
    availability of services or benefits.

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Sec. 1973gg-10. Criminal penalties

    A person, including an election official, who in any election for
Federal office--
        (1) knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces,
    or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any person for--
            (A) registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to
        register or vote;
            (B) urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to
        vote, or to attempt to register or vote; or
            (C) exercising any right under this subchapter; or

        (2) knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to
    deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and
    impartially conducted election process, by--
            (A) the procurement or submission of voter registration
        applications that are known by the person to be materially
        false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in
        which the election is held; or
            (B) the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that
        are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or
        fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is
        held,

shall be fined in accordance with title 18 (which fines shall be paid
into the general fund of the Treasury, miscellaneous receipts (pursuant
to section 3302 of title 31), notwithstanding any other law), or
imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

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supernovasky said:

Or maybe you can quit being paranoid and accept that these people DO want to do good, and when they realized that some people were doing bad, they stood on the side of law enforcement.

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Eight U.S. senators are demanding that the Federal Housing Finance Agency cut off monies for the group. 

On Thursday, House Republican Leader John Boehner also demanded all federal funding to ACORN be stopped. 

In Allegheny County, Pa. (which includes Pittsburgh), District Attorney Stephen Zappala confirmed he is investigating potential voter fraud involving ACORN.

“ACORN is part of this, but there are other applications which have been filed which appear to have fraudulent signatures and fraudulent identifications of individuals,” Zappala said.

The FBI is probing vote fraud in New Mexico. The Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office said Thursday it had turned over to the FBI 1,400 voter registration cards that are said to be suspicious.


n Missouri’s Jackson County (which includes Kansas City), officials claim ACORN is participating in vote fraud. Charlene Davis, co-director of the county’s election board, said a flurry of fraudulent registration forms were filed by ACORN

Earlier this week, agents of the Nevada secretary of state and attorney general raided ACORN’s Las Vegas office with a search warrant. Nevada authorities allege that ACORN had hired 59 felons through a work-release program as canvassers and submitted nearly 300 apparently fraudulent voter registration cards as part of the drive. 

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Sen. Barack Obama has denied any ties with the radical community group

Obama had worked a lawyer with the group in Illinois. Later he paid an ACORN-affiliated group in Ohio more than $800,000 during the heated Democratic primary season against Sen. Hillary Clinton.

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supernovasky said:

Alright, so some went into Limbo. BUT, ACORN managed to get a law changed that prevented typos from disqualifying a voter application.

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I'd imagine several of these registrations were resolved. That 1.3 million number? I seriously doubt it's "registration cards filled out" but rather "voters registered successfully."

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