Nevada raids ACORN

A Democrat Secretary of State pressed local authorities into raiding an ACORN office in Las Vegas yesterday according to the Washington Times;

Authorities searched the Las Vegas office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with duplicate and false names, including names of former Dallas Cowboys players.

Bob Walsh, a spokesman for Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a Democrat, whose office leads the task force, stressed that ACORN was not charged with a crime but served with a search warrant as part of an ongoing investigation.

“We went in and seized computer equipment and documents,” he said.

Of course, ACORN called it a “stunt”;

But Bertha Lewis, ACORN’s interim chief organizer in Las Vegas, called it a political hit job and said the organization for months had tried in vain to work with Nevada elections officials to identify potentially fraudulent voter applications.

“Today’s raid by the secretary of state’s office is a stunt that serves no useful purpose other than discredit our work registering Nevadans and distracting us from the important work ahead of getting every eligible voter to the polls,” she said.

What stunt? Who could it possibly benefit in the Secretary of State’s office?

Michelle Malkin links to the search warrant in which a former ACORN employee calls his former workmates “lazy crack-heads” who routinely filled out fictitious voter registration forms. Shocked. Just shocked. And ACORN has such a stellar reputation now besmirched by this over-eager state official. /sarcasm

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