ACORN is alive, well and flourishing in its Detroit office and committing voter registration fraud unchecked so far.. This is not the first time we have reported on ACORN. See the following articles cross posted from NoQuarter, ACORN IV: Obama, ACORN, Citizen’s Services Inc: False FEC Filings, Obama’s Acorn and Money Laundering Scandal? (UPDATED + Thursday evening update).

ACORN is dispatching part-time employees around the state of Michigan to register voters. The problem is more than 200,000 “new” voters have been registered in that state with widespread problem applications. The Free Press identified the problem. Here is what they wrote today.

Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.

The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN’s Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.

Freep spoke with the Secretary of State about ACORN.

“There appears to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications,” said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office. “And it appears to be widespread.”

Chesney said her office has had discussions with ACORN officials after local clerks reported the questionable applications to the state. Chesney said some of the applications are duplicates and some appear to be names that have been made up. The Secretary of State’s Office has turned over several of the applications to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The Secretary of State has done her job, but the U.S.Attorney’s office refused to comment on the applications that were turned over to their office. Nor did they comment on whether there is an ongoing investigation.

And what did ACORN say, what they always do!

ACORN officials said they were looking into the problem.

“We’ll do an investigation to see what’s happening,” said David Lagstein, a spokesman for the Detroit office. “If it’s really as many as that, it warrants further investigation.”

And we are aware of the fact they do not police themselves. It usually takes a Justice Department investigation to find employees guilty of voter fraud. This just isn’t enough anymore. The paltry $25,000 fine by the State of Washington has not curtailed their fraudulent work, if anything ACORN seems to be ramping up efforts to register voters fraudulently. Their excuse is lack of attention to detail or sloppiness. In my opinion it is neither. I believe it is because of inadequate training. We will never know the real reason why this fraud continues. However we do know it is a real problem in states like Michigan.

Why is this a real problem in Michigan this year?

Simply because Michigan is a key battleground state in the presidential election this year. According to WZZM13.com, Michigan is a “yellow state”. More from WZZM13:

Michigan has been called a yellow state, a battleground state, neither red nor blue, and worth 17 electoral votes in what pollsters are showing to be a tight presidential race here between Republican candidate John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.

This is what some of the clerks responsible for checking “all” incoming applications said:

In Pontiac, where several thousand applications have been submitted by ACORN in the last few weeks for the November election, the clerk’s office is finding that numerous applications are sometimes filed under one name.

“What it causes is a slowdown of our operations,” said Pontiac City Clerk Yvette Talley. “They’re steadily coming in, and we are finding a huge number of duplications.”

Talley said she could not provide an exact number.

Clerks are required to check their records against a statewide database of all registered voters within their jurisdiction, so it would be unlikely that duplications would allow voters to cast their votes more than once, Talley said.

“We catch them all, but it’s taking up a lot of our time,” she said.

In Oak Park, clerk Sandra Gadd said they have been seeing “lots of duplication” from ACORN in recent months but were reassured by ACORN officials that the group was working to correct the problem.

“They’ve been very cooperative,” Gadd said. “I spoke with them this week. They called me, and they’re willing to go door-to-door to do whatever they have to do to take care of this.”

I have a burning question for the Justice Department….What are you going to do stop ACORN’s voter fraud? When will their ability to cause problems in localities checking voter applications during an election year be ended for good? Your completed actions against ACORN employees isn’t doing the job! ACORN must be stopped now!

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