Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Precedence: ROUTINE Date: 04/17/2007
To: Criminal Investigative Attn: Public Corruption/Civil
Rights Section
From:
Seattle
Squad 4
Contact: SAI~ ____________ ~ ________ ~
Approved By: I I ~
Drafted By:
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Case ID #: 56C-SE-~ (Pending)
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Title: UNSUBSi
Association of Community Organizations
For Reform NOWi
AKA Acorni
King County Voter Registrations;
Election Laws
Synopsis: To request full investigation be opened.
Reference: 194-SE-C92605 Serial 29
Enclosure(s): Original and three (03) copies of Letterhead
Memorandum suitable for distribution
Details: Referenced serial provided information regarding
captioned group, ACORN, submitting approximately two thousand
suspect voter registration forms to the King County Elections
Division. The forms were not accepted by the Elections
Division as they arrived one day after the submission
deadline.
King County Elections officials became suspicious as
many of the signatures on the forms appeared similar.
Elections employees selected a sample of four hundred forms
and attempted to verify the phone numbers listed. Only two
numbers were valid and persons at those numbers denied filling
out voter registration cards.
On April 12, 2007, SA 1 ....-=--__ -::":'"~I attended a meeting
with King County Prosecutor, Stephen Hobbs, Assistant United
States Attorney, Western District of Washington, Arlen Storm,
and King County Sher'-~eputy,
Hobbs and
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