ACORN-related voting fraud in New Mexico

From this:

The Republican Party of New Mexico alleges 28 people voted fraudulently in one Albuquerque state House district in the June Democratic primary.

Party representatives said at a news conference Thursday they found the suspect voters in a review of 92 newly registered voters in House District 13...

[State Rep. Justine Fox-Young, an Albuquerque Republican] said several of the suspect voters were registered by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN...

It's important to note that this is an example of voting fraud, not simply voter registration fraud; ACORN apologists have rushed to claim that there's no evidence of the former and the latter wasn't really ACORN's fault at all. According to those apologists, ACORN is actually the victim of scammers that they've hired. Obviously, the story is quite a bit different, although it remains open whether ACORN was directly involved in getting those "people" to vote.

The most memorable part of this is that one of the fraudulent voters was named "Duran-Duran". As it turns out, there is someone with that last name (link) and the NM GOP should have done their research first. However, most of the others will probably pan out.

There's also a round-up of ACORN stories here.

Politics · Fri, 10/17/2008 - 10:43 · · Importance: 1

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