October 10, 2008 (LPAC)--Investigations have been reported in a number of states over the past several days, of the voter-registration activities of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which runs campaigns to register low-income voters, often with taxpayer funding. Candidate Barack Obama has had various associations with ACORN in the past, and ACORN is backing Obama in the Presidential campaign. What's more, ACORN is part of the George Soros "billionaires club" Democracy Alliance-nexus of organizations, which also includes the Tides Foundation and the SEIU. It is this apparatus that was heavily deployed against the Hillary Clinton campaign, during the primaries, and which is part of Soros' self-described "hostile takeover of the Democratic Party."

On Oct. 7, Nevada state investigators executed a search warrant in Las Vegas to seize documents and records of ACORN's "Project Vote" registration drive, for a multi-jurisdictional investigation of alleged fraudulent registrations. Nevada state and Federal officials had announced that effort in general terms this past July. Today:

* The Las Vegas Sun reported that the Nevada Corrections Department learned in July that one of its facilities in Las Vegas had sent out work-release prisoners to a contractor which sent 59 of them to ACORN for registering voters;

* The New York Post reported that voters subpoenaed by the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), Ohio Board of Elections said they'd been registered to vote anywhere from 10 to 72 times by ACORN canvassers;

* The Chicago Sun-Times reported, citing county election officials, that in Lake County, Indiana, an estimated half of the 5,000 voter registrations filed by ACORN in the past two weeks were fraudulent, and Republican officials have taken the issue to Federal Court; and

* The Chicago Tribune carried an AP article reporting that Missouri officials "are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms" submitted by ACORN, and an FBI spokeswoman was quoted, that the FBI has been in touch with election officials about potential vote fraud and plans to investigate. The article noted that in April, eight ACORN workers in St. Louis pleaded guilty to federal election fraud for submitting false registration cards in the 2006 election.

Rounding out this picture is a blog posting by today about a rumor, circulating in the Federal courthouse in Chicago, that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is spearheading a 10-state RICO investigation of ACORN, which the writer suggests is carried forward from an earlier investigation of ACORN.

Background:

August 26, 2008 - Obama Law Firm Got Millions For ACORN From Famous Dope Inc. Bank

August 26, 2008 - Soros In Control Of National Voter Mobilization Efforts

17 Aug 2008 - Questions Raised on Democratic Primaries, As ACORN Blows Apart.