This has been an interesting week, to say the least, for ACORN. They have been in the news all over the place. And now, for Indianapolis. Daltonsbriefs beat me to the punch (writing this has taken way too long), but I will recap.

There are several articles and blog posts parsing some data for Indy. First, Brendan O’Shaughnessy of the Indy Star has an article where he identifies the number of registered voters in Marion County as 677,401 voters. OK that is fine. But, as Ogden on Politics points out the total population of Indianapolis according to Stats Indiana was 876,804 in 2007. In 2006, the non-voting age population of Indy made up 26.9% of the general population, which means that the 2007 voting age population should be somewhere around 641,000.

This means that from 2007 to 2008 there would have to be an increase of 36,000 voting age people and a 100% voter registration in order for that number to make sense. This is at a time that Stats Indiana (the same report) predicts that the population of Indianapolis will go stay flat or decrease.

Are there reasons why some people that don’t live in Indy would be on the voting roles? Yes. For example, my wife and I moved from Marion to Hamilton County about a year ago, but my wife only got her voter registration changed last week. But there is no way that you can look at 105% voter registration and think that all is OK.

Some suggest that ACORN is present here in Indianapolis (their office is at 18th and Meridian) and that we may be seeing some of their activity here.

More about ACORN’s problems below the fold:

So what has their activity been? Here is a summary of the recent news about ACORN (via RedState–I am going to link to the news sources, where available, but I got them from the RedState post or other sources)

The New York Post has an article interviewing people that ACORN has registered more than once in Ohio.

In Lake County, Indiana (I know that is a surprise) over 1,100 voter registration cards out of 2,000 received from ACORN were thrown out because they were obviously fraudulent. If they caught 55%, how many got through the system?

Milwaukee has had two indictments of ACORN canvassers: one woman submitted “dozens” of fraudulent names and addresses; a second man was accused of lying to election officials by saying that he was not a felon to become a special registration deputy. (This individual might not be an ACORN canvasser).

ACORN hired at least 7 convicted felons in Madison, Wisconsin to register voters there. This is not allowed there (as in most places).

There are too many to describe. Here are the links:
New Mexico (hiring felons)
Nevada (fraudulent registrations)
West Virginia (fraudulent registrations—not identified as ACORN…yet
North Carolina (fraudulent registrations)

And more including Pennsylvania and Missouri.

Any battleground states there?

And if you have forgotten: Obama was a “leadership trainer” for ACORN and the boards that he was a member of funneled money to ACORN. Stanley Kurtz points this out, as do others. ACORN’s political wing (?) has endorsed Obama for President. The following is a quote from ACORN’s press release on Obama’s site:

When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education. Senator Obama said, “I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That’s what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That’s the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”

UPDATE: The New York Post reports that “ACORN has been implicated in voter-fraud schemes in 15 states” including those I have listed above.