A pizza worker and others have been caught up in a federal voter scandal probe involving ACORN in Cleveland.
ACORN is a community-activist group that seeks to register low-income voters, who skew overwhelmingly Democratic.
Christopher Barkley, a Domino’s Pizza worker in Cleveland, is now facing questioning by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections after his name turned up “10 to 15” times on voter rolls. He claims he was harassed by ACORN workers who were paid by the name to sign up voters.
“I kept getting approached by folks who asked me to register,” Barkley told The New York Post. “They’d ask me if I was registered. I’d say yes, and they’d ask me to do it [register] again. (Source)
Another Cleveland, Ohio resident, Lateala Goins, has also been approached multiple times by ACORN workers.
“If you get off the bus in downtown Cleveland, ACORN workers are everywhere,” she said. “There are at least 5 ACORN workers to every one of you.”
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Goins said even if residents insist they have already registered to vote, ACORN workers push them to sign up anyway.
“They say ‘could you please just sign this,’ and if you sign, it increases their paycheck. You feel kind of pushed to do it. You don’t want to be mean but you don’t want to be harassed either.”
Goins said the board of elections contacted her to tell her she might not be eligible to vote in this year’s elections. When she asked why, she was told she had already registered under 6 different addresses.
Sen. Barack Obama, who is campaigning in Cincinnati, Ohio today, adamantly refuted claims that he was associated with ACORN, or worked with ACORN in the past.
But according to an article in a Chicago newspaper, Obama, in his capacity as an attorney, represented ACORN in a successful lawsuit against the state of Illinois to force state compliance with a federal voting access law in 1995.
Maybe he forgot.
