Talk:American Center for Voting Rights

message: There was a Pittsburg Tribune-Review editorial  "'Study' is political fraud." By Dimitri Vassilaros, Monday, August 8, 2005 about this organization and Hearne and Lunde. It said the two directors of the group, Hearne and Lunde, sounded like a comedy duo. "When asked to name any contributors to his nonprofit, Hearne claimed he did not know but said Lunde did. When Lunde was asked, he claimed he did not know but said Hearne did." It called the 368 page study titled "Vote Fraud, Intimidation & Suppression in the 2004 Presidential Election," a fraud, noting close ties to the national Republican political and the Bush campaign.
A recent reference in the online version, StLtoday.com, of the St.Louis Post Dispatch  is "St. Louis lawyer figures prominently in vote fraud, U.S. attorneys probes." By Jo Mannies, Post-Dispatch political correspondent, 06/06/2007. It notes Hearne was the general council of ACVR, and that the website was abandoned. Per BradBlog, it has since been acquired by ACORN. With respect to the mysterious redirect of the Hearne article to this article, which a few other OTRS authorized Wikipedians have approved on the grounds that the article was just a "coatrack" wherein editors wanted to talk about this and other issues rather than about the individual, the Post Dispatch article says Hearn is "in the national spotlight," and "one of the top Republican lawyers in the country on election-related matters." It says he was the Bush Cheney national counsel in the 2004 campaign and is the election law counsel for his state's governor. It says he advised "working groups for the federal Election Assistance Commission and the bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform." It says the Republican National Committee calls him "an accomplished attorney" and that he has " a lot of prominence — and notoriety." and "played a prominent role" in efforts to tighten voting security as by requiring photo IDs. All this sounds like notability beyond his role in this defunct organization. Hearne denied speaking to the White House about the firings of US attorneys, Edison 18:56, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
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**  which documented, among other incidents, the registration of voters named "Mary Poppins", "Dick Tracy", and "Jive F. Turkey." According to court records in the criminal prosecution of Chad Staton in Defiance County, Ohio, individuals registering these fictional voters were paid money and in at least one instance, crack cocaine.  The organization involved in this effort was called "Project Vote,"<ref>

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message: There is a great deal of information in the Dissolution and controversies section that has nothing to do with the ACVR.  What is the relevance of Bradley Schlozman, or ACORN fraud?  What is the connection between that and ACVR?  How is any of this a controversy anyway? Bonewah (talk) 19:28, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
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message: I deleted "Critics[who?] noted that it was "the only prominent non-governmental organization claiming that voter fraud is a major problem," and called the Center a Republican Party front group whose support of a photo ID requirement was intended to suppress the minority vote.[1]" from the lede section of this article as it adds a bit of wp:undue weight to "critics" opinions.  Additionally, the only critics cited is slate magazine, which is a bit thin for such a strong claim.  Also note wp:coatrack, this article is not a vehicle for criticisms of the subject.  Bonewah (talk) 17:54, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
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