Ex-ACORN official gets probation for voter registration plan (Hope and Change)
A former field director for the political advocacy organization ACORN was sentenced today in district court to up to three years of probation.
Christopher Edwards, who in August pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime of compensation for registration of voters, a gross misdemeanor, received a suspended jail sentence and a $500 fine. He has agreed to testify against ACORN and one of its former regional directors, Amy Busefink.
The Nevada attorney general’s office has accused ACORN and Busefink of operating an illegal bonus system. Tying money to or setting quotas for collecting voter registration cards is illegal under Nevada law.
“I take responsibility for what I did,” Edwards told the court. “I’m sorry, I truly am.”
Read the whole story at Las Vegas Sun
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It isn’t against the law to pay voter registration canvassers in Nevada or any other state in the union. It’s against the law to pay per card. ACORN pays per hour.
Nevada law doesn’t prohibit quotas. The prosecutor is stretching the meaning of the law to hit ACORN with SOMETHING because he didn’t find anything to indicate fraud on ACORN’s part after his much publicized “raid” on the ACORN office. The fact that they did not find fraud from the raid was not reported here. I suppose you guys think that finding no evidence of fraud is just evidence that your bogeyman ACORN hid it deeper.
The preliminary hearing against ACORN revealed that it set a goal for canvassers, but did not fire canvassers just for falling short. The standard was flexible. And they were paid regardless of whether they collected 2 or 200 cards.
If you guys could legitimately trash ACORN’s registration work without telling lies, I might listen up. Till then, you’re just telling tales about a fictional bogeyman.