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DANIEL T. SATTERBERG
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Statement of Interim King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg
For Release: July 26, 2007
For Information Contact: Dan Donohoe: 206-296-9029
Today I am announcing the filing of criminal charges against seven defendants for
submitting over 1,700 fraudulent voter registration forms t6 King County Elections
Department in October of 2006.
While the ,actions of these individuals are extremely ~erious, I want to begin by
assuring the public that no one has voted under 'these false registrations in any
election.
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Indeed,a joint federal and state investigation has determined that this scheme was
not intended to permit illegal voting.
Instead, ihe defendants cheated their employer, the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (or ACORN), to get paid for work they did not
actually perform. ACORN's lax oversight of their own voter registration drive
permitted this to happen.
Voter fraud will not be tolerated, in King County.
This is a crime that undermines public confidence in our democratic process, and
we take it very seriously. '
Both the group of individual defendants and the ACORN corporation will be held to
account by our actions today.
The individuals will be criminal defendants -- facing felony charges.
ACORN will be the subject of a strict Settlement and Compliance agreement, '
designed to ensure that this type of negligent supervision does not occur again.
ACORN has also agreed to pay King County $25,000 in compensation for the time
and effort it took to clean up our voter rolls of these false registrations.
This was an act of vandalism against our voter rolls.
The massive volume of false voter registrations dumped into the King County voter
database required a tremendqus effort to investigate and clean-up.
http://www.metrokc.gov/proatty/news/2007Noter%20Registration%20Statement.htm 9/23/2008