{"id":11355,"date":"2010-06-11T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:46:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:46:53","slug":"but-is-it-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11355","title":{"rendered":"But Is It News?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are ACORN employees\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/06\/10\/acorn-employees-tell-fbi-of-deliberate-election-fraud-according-to-new-documents\/\"> dropping the dime<\/a>?:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The radical activist group ACORN \u201cworks\u201d for the Democratic Party and deliberately promotes election fraud, ACORN employees told FBI investigators, according to an FBI document dump Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a watchdog group, are FBI investigators\u2019 reports related to the 2007 investigation and arrest of eight St. Louis, Mo., workers from ACORN\u2019s Project Vote affiliate for violation of election laws. All eight employees involved in the scandal later pleaded guilty to voter registration fraud&#8230;The handwritten reports by FBI agents show that ACORN employees reported numerous irregularities in the nonprofit group\u2019s business practices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s only voter <em>registration <\/em>fraud&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why pay for registrations alone?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to one report, an ACORN employee said the purpose of \u201c[f]raudulent cards\u201d was \u201c[t]o cause confusion on election day to keep polls open longer,\u201d \u201c[t]o allow people who can\u2019t vote to vote,\u201d and \u201c[t]o allow to vote multiple times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another report quotes an employee saying, \u201cProject Vote will pay them whether cards fake or not \u2013 whatever they had to do to get the cards was attitude.\u201d Project Vote pays based on the number of cards and \u201cthat\u2019s why they were so reckless,\u201d the report says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Innocent until proven guilty (or until swept under the table), naturally.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are ACORN employees\u00a0 dropping the dime?: The radical activist group ACORN \u201cworks\u201d for the Democratic Party and deliberately promotes election fraud, ACORN employees told FBI investigators, according to an FBI document dump Wednesday. The documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a watchdog group, are FBI investigators\u2019 reports related to the 2007 investigation and arrest of eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11831,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions\/11831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}