{"id":419840,"date":"2010-03-11T23:01:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T03:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/two-acorn-employees-arrested-for-voter-fraud\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T23:01:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T03:01:34","slug":"two-acorn-employees-arrested-for-voter-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/419840","title":{"rendered":"Two ACORN Employees Arrested For Voter Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Election+vote+voting_1961_19659761_0_0_7053390_300.jpg\" alt=\"Two ACORN employees arrested for voter fraud\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Two former voter registration employees of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) were among five Wisconsin residents charged March 8 with fraud relating to the 2008 presidential election. <\/p>\n<p>The criminal complaint accuses Maria Miles and Kevin Clancy of submitting several voter registration applications for the same individual on multiple occasions to meet a 20-signature-per-day quota imposed by the controversial anti-poverty group. <\/p>\n<p>Clancy reportedly acknowledged to police that he had signed up his brother and his mother multiple times to fulfill his quota, according to <i>TodaySTM4.com<\/i>. The complaint also identified another worker who was allegedly fired for not reaching the requisite daily number of signatures and who said that she saw other ACORN employees &quot;getting names out of the phonebook.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said that the organization verified information on each voter registration card and flagged any duplicates. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The small number of instances in which an employee has submitted duplicate or fraudulent voter registration cards are an example of workers attempting to defraud ACORN by passing off bad work as good work&mdash;and the organization supports their prosecution,&quot; Whelan said, quoted by the news source. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a Wisconsin prosecutor was quoted on Monday by <em>The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em>, criticizing local police for ignoring voter fraud cases in the area. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19659761-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19659761\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former voter registration employees of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) were among five Wisconsin residents charged March 8 with fraud relating to the 2008 presidential election. The criminal complaint accuses Maria Miles and Kevin Clancy of submitting several voter registration applications for the same individual on multiple occasions to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}