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Don’t miss this story by John Fund in the WSJ. 

Former ACORN employee Anita MonCrief says ACORN has long been aware of the issues with bogus registration cards.  This morning on Lauara Ingraham she said ACORN considers a 40% validity rate acceptable.  So much for the claims that ACORN’s upper management team was/is either unaware of the quality control problems or that problems occur only rarely and locally.

“There’s no quality control on purpose, no checks and balances,” says Nate Toler, who worked until 2006 as the head organizer of an Acorn campaign against Wal-Mart in California. And Ms. MonCrief says it is longstanding practice to blame bogus registrations on lower-level employees who then often face criminal charges, a practice she says Acorn internally calls “throwing folks under the bus.”

Election Journal has a vote fraud map tracker thingie up on their site.

Mary Pat Flaherty @ the Washington Post is reporting a raid of ACORN’s Nevada office as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged voter fraud.

Apparently seven agents from the NV Sec of State and AG offices served a search warrant and removed boxes and computers.

(ACORN stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.)

The gist of the complaint against ACORN is that they are trying to bombard election officials with new registrations that are carelessly gathered and might enable unqualified voters to get on the rolls.

So far, proven offenses range from illegible names on registration cards to names being drawn from telephone listings or other public directories. 

Here’s ACORN’s Nevada website/contact info if you are curious.