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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (81198)	11/2/2006 7:56:54 PM
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ACORN Workers Indicted For Alleged Voter Fraud POSTED: 5:02 pm CST November 1, 2006 UPDATED: 10:25 pm CST November 1, 2006 Email This Story \| Print This Story Sign Up for Breaking News Alerts KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Four people have been indicted on charges of voter fraud in Kansas City, officials said Wednesday. Investigators said questionable registration forms for new voters were collected by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to improve minority and low-income communities. The four indicted -- Kwaim A. Stenson, Dale D. Franklin, Stephanie L. Davis and Brian Gardner -- were employed by ACORN as registration recruiters. They were each charged with two counts. Federal indictments allege the four turned in false voter registration applications. Prosecutors said the indictments are part of a national investigation. ACORN and Project Vote recruit and assign workers to low-income and minority neighborhoods to register people to vote. The Kansas City Election Board told KMBC they found suspicious forms, such as seven applications from one person and an application for a dead man. "There is some motive behind it -- this is not accidental," said Ray James with the Kansas City Election Board. Election officials said some of the application cards had false addresses, signatures and phone numbers. ACORN officials in Kansas City said they turned in the four people who were indicted. "We're very happy that they were indicted," said Claudie Harris with ACORN. Harris said ACORN workers are paid by the hour and not by the number of voter registration cards they turn in. "When you fraudulently defraud this, that gives us a bad name and what we're trying to do a bad name," Harris said. ACORN officials said the four indicted have been fired. Harris said ACORN workers check every voter registration card before sending it to the Election Board. Last month, ACORN claimed to have processed more than 35,000 voter registration applications in Kansas City since the summer. Previous Stories: October 24, 2006: Feds To Probe Voter Registration Problems Copyright 2006 by TheKansasCityChannel.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast,