09Aug2011 -Voter Fraud in Colorado - Can We Protect Our Elections From ACORN?Friday, August 05, 2011 3:12 PM
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August 5, 2011
From the Desk of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton:
Voter Fraud Front and Center
With little more than a year before the 2012 elections, the press has started to sharpen its focus on the candidates. Judicial Watch, meanwhile, is deeply concerned about the integrity of the electoral process — especially given the rampant voter registration fraud caused by the “community organization” ACORN and its partner in crime Project Vote in the last several election cycles. (Do not believe the rumors that ACORN is defunct. As I’ve said before, the organization has splintered into organizations across the country and they are prepared to wreak havoc in 2012. Project Vote is going strong, and hasn’t changed its stripes.)
On Tuesday, I moderated a Judicial Watch educational panel entitled “The Voter Fraud Threat to Free and Fair Elections” at Judicial Watch’s headquarters here in Washington, DC.
My guests were: John Fund, a senior editor of The American Spectator and author of Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy and the upcoming The Threat of Voter Fraud to Free and Fair Elections; Christian Adams, former Department of Justice Attorney in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division; and Catherine Engelbrecht, Founder of both King Street Patriots and True the Vote.
It was about as good a panel as we’ve ever hosted, and viewing it will educate, worry and motivate you. You can click here to watch a video of the panel, which was also streamed live over the Internet. We will have a written transcript on our website very soon.
Following our educational panel, on Thursday we released documents obtained from the Colorado Department of State showing that ACORN and its affiliate, Project Vote, successfully pressured Colorado officials into implementing new policies for increasing the registration of public assistance recipients during the 2008 and 2010 election seasons. And, as you might expect, following the policy changes the percentage of invalid voter registration forms from Colorado public assistance agencies was four times the national average!
See what I mean by chaos and havoc?
We got these documents through a Colorado Open Records Act request filed with the Colorado Office of the Secretary of State. They include approximately 400 internal emails related to a complaint by ACORN and Project Vote that the state of Colorado was in violation of Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). (Under Section 7, states are required to offer voter registration services at all public assistance agencies, including unemployment offices and food stamp offices.)
17Jul2011 – 2012 is approaching. If you are a PCP, keep a lookout for an announcement about a PCP get together to plan for the rest of this years’ local elections (that is, helping your favorite candidates win) and some PCP training we have planned for later this year. This training will focus on your role as a PCP in the Caucus process and the election work we need you you to be doing. You ARE the link to your Precinct and key to our WINNING. Of course, feel free to contact your District Captain or any officer in the meantime if you want to get things underway sooner. A form is at the Contact page to send us an email. It’s time to turn up the heat!
14Feb2011 – The RTD Rail and HWY 36 project planning and funding is now coming to the fore. The thinking of RTD right now, is to float a ballot issue to raise our taxes (sale tax) by .4% to raise an additional $2.6B (yes that’s BILLION) for the rail extensions. Ask yourself the questions, “Do you want to spend this kind of money to perhaps have a rail line that would carry less than 5% of the commuting population? Will this make a profit and by when? What guarantees do we have that this will be all the money required to complete the line? What will the added operating costs be once complete? Yes, lots of questions.
Keep an eye out for more information.
