Ex-ACORN Organizer Describes Voter Sign-up Bonuses


	Ex-ACORN Organizer Describes Voter Sign-up Bonuses

jatfla

9-29-2009 8:47 PM

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And to think that once-upon-a-time it was thought that a Sec. of State and the US Supreme Court elected a President.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2e995eec-207e-4da4-b61a-1159dce18103/5066C845-2C75-4E15-A678-839A74BF84A7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://cbs2.com/wireapnewsca/Former.ACORN.organizer.2.1215451.html" href="http://cbs2.com/wireapnewsca/Former.ACORN.organizer.2.1215451.html" style="font-size: 11px;">cbs2.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs2.com/wireapnewsca/Former.ACORN.organizer.2.1215451.html"><H2>Ex-ACORN Organizer Describes Voter Sign-up Bonuses</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs2.com/wireapnewsca/Former.ACORN.organizer.2.1215451.html"><DIV>A former Nevada director for the political advocacy group ACORN testified Tuesday that quotas were common and that he wasn't told he couldn't pay bonuses to encourage voter registration canvassers to work a little harder during last year's presidential campaign.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs2.com/wireapnewsca/Former.ACORN.organizer.2.1215451.html">"No one in ACORN knew that this was illegal, up until December," Christopher Howell Edwards testified</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs2.com/wireapnewsca/Former.ACORN.organizer.2.1215451.html">his ACORN supervisors knew canvassers making $8 per hour were paid bonuses of $5 per shift for exceeding a quota of 20 voter registration cards last August and September.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs2.com/wireapnewsca/Former.ACORN.organizer.2.1215451.html"><DIV>
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