ACORN Fraud in Pennsylvania, Ohio

UPDATE: The NY Times notices ACORN (More of "the McCain campaign made me do it". It's all an eeevil conspiracy against The One, despite the fact that all these creepy people keep springing full-grown from the head of Zeus, The One.) More ACORN fraud in Ohio. Barack and ACORN go way back. Way back. Ace of Spades:

Tip: Two Big Stories About ACORN Fraud in Ohio About to Hit
Don't Be Frontin': The Radical New Party Obama Was Once a Member of and Project Vote, Whom Obama Admits Working For, Share Same Office with... ACORN

Here's the address, per Ace:

Ya'll think it interesting that ACORN, Project VOTE and The NEW Party share the same address?

88 Third Avenue, Third Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Um, ACORN is supposed to be non-partisan. Federal funding that ends up in their coffers needs to be stopped!!!***Times Leader:

The district attorney for the Pittsburgh area is investigating possible forgery and other irregularities on voter registration forms turned in by a group already being scrutinized for registration problems in other states.

Similar allegations are being investigated by the Delaware County district attorney and the U.S. attorney's office in Philadelphia.

The Pittsburgh-area investigation focuses on fewer than 100 registration forms apparently forged or otherwise illegitimate, such as duplicating the name of someone already registered under another party, said Mike Manko, spokesman for Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr.

The forms were collected by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, Manko said. The investigation mirrors others throughout the country in which ACORN canvassers allegedly turned in forms with fake Social Security numbers, incorrect birth dates, forged signatures or fake addresses.

Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman Robert Gleason Jr. said ACORN and others submitted nearly 253,000 voter registration forms in Philadelphia this year. Thousands of them have errors, he said. Delaware County officials are also investigating more than 290 registration cards, Gleason said.

Philadelphia's voter registration administrator, Bob Lee, said 57,000 of the 253,000 registration forms were rejected, but that more than 41,000 of those were filled out by people who were already registered.

He acknowledges that some of the other 16,000 rejected voter cards are troubling _ in particular about 5,600 that include nonexistent addresses. Others were rejected for being too young or not including a birth date. Others list an incorrect Social Security or driver's license number, which could be simple mistakes or attempts at fraud, Lee said.

"So, there's an issue here," Lee said.

UPDATE: Slate presents part of the story on ACORN but takes the Obama camp's word that Obama never trained anyone for ACORN. ACORN Chicago's Madeline Talbott says he did. Kurtz:

On July 31, 1997, six people were arrested as 200 Acorn protesters tried to storm the Chicago City Council session. According to the Chicago Daily Herald, Acorn demonstrators pushed over the metal detector and table used to screen visitors, backed police against the doors to the council chamber, and blocked late-arriving aldermen and city staff from entering the session.

Reading the Herald article, you might think Acorn’s demonstrators had simply lost patience after being denied entry to the gallery at a packed meeting. Yet the full story points in a different direction. This was not an overreaction by frustrated followers who couldn’t get into a meeting (there were plenty of protestors already in the gallery), but almost certainly a deliberate bit of what radicals call “direct action,” orchestrated by Acorn’s Madeleine Talbot. As Talbot was led away handcuffed, charged with mob action and disorderly conduct, she explicitly justified her actions in storming the meeting. This was the woman who first drew Obama into his alliance with Acorn, and whose staff Obama helped train.

and the leftist Chicago Reader mentions it in 1995:

Another strong supporter of Obama's work--as an organizer, as a lawyer, and now as a candidate--is Madeline Talbott, lead organizer of the feisty ACORN community organization, a group that's a thorn in the side of most elected officials. "I can't repeat what most ACORN members think and say about politicians. But Barack has proven himself among our members. He is committed to organizing, to building a democracy. Above all else, he is a good listener, and we accept and respect him as a kindred spirit, a fellow organizer."

Obama continues his organizing work largely through classes for future leaders identified by ACORN and the Centers for New Horizons on the south side.