ACORN to take census

[justashooter 430]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/17...e-acorn-census/

So they commit felony crimes for us during the election, now we pay them back by throwing a bunch of money at them, so they can falsify records again. Pork city and fraud. Bolds are my edit.

The U.S. Census is supposed to be free of politics, but one group with a history of voter fraud, ACORN, is participating in next year's count, raising concerns about the politicization of the decennial survey.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now signed on as a national partner with the U.S. Census Bureau in February 2009 to assist with the recruitment of the 1.4 million temporary workers needed to go door-to-door to count every person in the United States -- currently believed to be more than 306 million people.

A U.S. Census "sell sheet," an advertisement used to recruit national partners, says partnerships with groups like ACORN "play an important role in making the 2010 Census successful," including by "help[ing] recruit census workers."

The bureau is currently employing help from more than 250 national partners, including TARGET and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), to assist in the hiring effort.

But ACORN's partnership with the 2010 Census is worrisome to lawmakers who say past allegations of fraud should raise concerns about the organization.

"It's a concern, especially when you look at all the different charges of voter fraud. And it's not just the lawmakers' concern. It should be the concern of every citizen in the country," Rep. Lynn A. Westmoreland, R-Ga., vice ranking member of the subcommittee for the U.S. Census, told FOXNews.com. "We want an enumeration. We don't want to have any false numbers."

ACORN, which claims to be a non-partisan grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people, came under fire in 2007 when Washington State filed felony charges against several paid ACORN employees and supervisors for more than 1,700 fraudulent voter registrations. In March 2008, an ACORN worker in Pennsylvania was sentenced for making 29 phony voter registration forms. The group's activities were frequently questioned in the 2008 presidential election.

[Peikko 1,575]

Someone merge these two Acorn threads, please.

[I'm Gone 60]

That probably part of the reason why Judd Greg bailed out as commerce secretary. He saw Obama's people were going to stack the deck on the census.

[Peikko 1,575]

This is stupid, please merge these two topics as they are about exactly the same article.

[I'm Gone 60]

This is stupid, please merge these two topics as they are about exactly the same article.

Why is this stupid.? I have probably answered the same "can I get an SSN question a 1000 times" since I have been here.

[Ban Hammer 13,398]

This is stupid, please merge these two topics as they are about exactly the same article.

Why is this stupid.? I have probably answered the same "can I get an SSN question a 1000 times" since I have been here.