Wednesday - October 15, 2008
Mickey Mouse’s vote for the Democrats could rebound on Obama’s chances of becoming U.S. president.
WE CAN HOPE .... GUESS I WON’T KNOW TILL TOMORROW MORNING HOW TONIGHT’S DEBATE WENT. BUT DO NOT EXPECT MUCH FROM MCCAIN.
Why Mickey Mouse’s vote for the Democrats could rebound on Obama’s chances of becoming U.S. president
By DAVID GARDNER
Last updated at 1:04 AM on 15th October 2008Barack Obama is facing demands for an investigation into alleged links to a Left-wing group accused of creating bogus voters to boost his chances of becoming U.S. president.
The scandal involving tens of thousands of fake registrations across the U.S. has led to eight states launching criminal probes into the Association of Community Organisations for Reform Now (Acorn).
It claims to have signed up 1.3million poor and working-class voters in a mass registration in 18 states this year.
But it has been accused of trying to register a voter named Mickey Mouse in Orlando, Florida, and enrolling a 19-year-old to vote 73 times in Ohio.
One set of false registration forms filed by the group in Las Vegas included the starting line-up for the Dallas Cowboys football team.
Mickey vote: Acorn registered a voter by the name of Mickey Mouse in Orlando
The controversy could undermine support for Democrat Mr Obama to become the first black president on November 4 because he would benefit from many of the first-time voters signed up by Acorn.
Republican candidate John He says it created bogus new voters to manipulate the result of the election in favour of the Democrats.
The Wall Street Journal says the Obama campaign paid £477,000 to help finance Acorn’s vote drive.
He is also said to have led registration efforts early in his political career in a Chicago project involving the group and was a lawyer for Acorn in 1995.
Republican pundits last night drew parallels to claims in a new book about Mr Obama, saying he employed a consultant to have all his opponents in his 1996 Senate race removed over procedural errors.
According to The Case Against Barack Obama, anyone standing as a senator must collect 757 voters’ signatures.
But the consultant found fault with so many signatures of rivals’ backers - such as printing names rather than writing them - that they were dropped from the election and Mr Obama was elected unopposed.
The Obama campaign denies being involved with illegal voter registration and says he never worked closely with Acorn.
Acorn blames any wrongdoing on lazy staff who wanted to be paid for doing no work and were subsequently fired.
Spokesman Brian Kettenring said: ‘The attention being paid by the Right is tremendously disproportionate to the problem.’has called for an investigation into Mr Obama’s ties to Acorn.
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