Preview of the Catawba County Board of Commissioners Meeting at 9:30am on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010
Catawba County Public Information Officer Dave Hardin previews items to be considered at the Catawba County Board of Commissioners meeting at 9:30 am on Monday, November 1, 2010.
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Drew Griffin on ACORN “CNN American Morning”7:31am Package TOPIC: ACORN’s effect on Voter reg. in Philadelphia TRANSCRIPT: DREW GRIFFIN: […] The good news- there have been hundreds of thousands of new voter registrations processed in Philadelphia, including a vast majority, of good, clean registrations from ACORN. The Bad news- Philadelphia has already sent 1500 obvious fraudulent registrations to the US Attorney to be investigated. Every one of them from the same group- ACORN. GRIFFIN: Is ACORN a group that has been problematic in its organizing of these voter registration drives? FRED VOIGT: Absolutely. GRIFFIN: Have you tried to work with them to explain to them… VOIGT: Absolutely. GRIFFIN: Why aren’t…’cause this is… VOIGT: I don’t have any answers for you, okay? GRIFFIN: Right. VOIGT: We originally, I mean, this has been going on for a number of years. We have met with them, we have talked to them. GRIFFIN: According to city officials, close to 8000 applications turned in by ACORN are problematic- including the 1500 already sent to the US Attorney. And officials expect the number to climb. Fred Voigt says, so far, his office is catching them- making sure no bad registrations lead to bad votes, but admits he has limited staff. VOIGT: Are there gonna be bad votes? Sure, there’re gonna be bad votes. There are always bad votes. Am I concerned- this is a close election? Of course I’m concerned if it’s a close election, but you have to weigh everything in terms of …
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