Ex-ACORN employee pleads guilty to vote fraud felony

ACORN is back in the news. The defunct community organizing group--President Obama worked for their Project Vote group back in 1992 and represented them in an Illinois "motor-voter" case--gained a name for itself as a nationwide fraudulent voter registrar during the 2008 election.

But this afternoon we are loooking at Wisconsin. From the MacIver Institute:

A Milwaukee man charged with election fraud arising out of his work for the controversial ACORN group during the 2008 Presidential Election has plead guilty to the felony charges against him.

Kevin Clancy was charged with one count of Falsely Procuring Voter Registration as Party to a Crime by the Election Fraud Task Force, a collaborative effort between the Department of Justice, the Milwaukee District Attorney’s Office and the Milwaukee Police Department.

"The integrity of elections is dependent upon citizens and officials insisting they be conducted lawfully," Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen told MacIver News. "Wisconsin’s citizens should not have to wonder whether their vote has been negated or diminished by illegally cast ballots."

According to the criminal complaint, Clancy served as a Special Registration Deputy ("SRD") for the City of Milwaukee in advance of the 2008 Presidential Election. He worked for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now ("ACORN").

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