Oct 10 2008
And News From Pennsylvania
Looks like more charges against ACORN here.
The Allegheny County district attorney said Thursday that criminal charges could result from nearly 100 fraudulent voter registrations submitted in the Pittsburgh area, some of which came from a group accused of flooding elections offices around the country with bogus applications.
District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said county police are reviewing voter-registration applications from the past 45 days.
“There are clearly people on some of these applications that were not solicited … or may not exist,” he said.
Asked whether the investigation would lead to charges, Zappala said: “There appears to be a crime, yes.”
Violations of election laws generally are misdemeanor charges, but forging a signature on an official document is a violation of criminal law and could be a felony. In Pennsylvania, a second-degree felony forgery conviction could carry up to 10 years in prison.
Elections Division Manager Mark Wolosik said employees of his office found registration cards missing critical information or bearing signatures that did not match voters’ signatures on file. Wolosik said he referred the cases to county police.
Yesterday, there were investigations in ten states — in one week. Net Right Nation has been created just to track them. Boehner has called for a stop to federal funding for this nest of rattlesnakes, and Matt Johnson raises the obvious question: How did they get it in the first place?
One response so far
ACORN: bitter nuts that attract squirrels.
Or to paraphrase what we said at the University of Michigan: happiness is roasted ACORN nuts.
All those PA ACORNs can come to Ohio…Jen Brunner said so.