Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

SHERIFF
Officer 10:
05070
Address:
KIXGCOUNTY
Name (Last, First, Middle):
Johnson, Christopher T.
King County Sheriff's Office
CaseNbr:
07-120588
OateReportTaken:
04/20107 13:55
To:
Case File
Statement;
Subject:
Phone Interview with Brian Mellor
that the person filled out the form. The calls are documented on a call sheet. The QC is suppose to call a
minimum of 20% of the numbers on the forms, and all if time permits.
If there is a problem the QC completes an investigation sheet and discusses the problem with the PO. The next
morning the PO would sit down with the employee and go over the problem. If the problem was related to fraud,
the employee would be terminated.
Any suspicious voter registration forms should trigger an investigation.
A typical temporary employee should collect about 20 registrations during a 4-5 hour shift. If someone is not
regularly bring in this amount, they are sent out with a more qualified person. There is no quota system. The only
incentive for doing a good job would be a promotion to "team leader," which would mean an additional dollar per
hour.
(As a note, Clifton Mitchell was a team leader).
The first PO, Anita Latch, was fired 09-01-2006 because of partisan politicking problems. It was the PO that hired
the QC person. The QC person was Brianna.
After the PO was fired, Clifton Mitchell took over as the unofficial PO. The regional director of ACORN, Stephanie
Moore, may have appointed Mitchell to this position. Among other states, Moore is the director for Missouri,
where, coincidentally, Mitchell spent time in prison.
The national director of voter registration for ACORN is Amy Busefink.
Alex King is in charge of the local office for the Washington chapter of ACORN in Burien. Apparently, King has all
of the files (or at least copies) that were generated by the Tacoma office of ACORN in 2006. There may be
another permanent employee, like King, named Josh.
Brian Mellor said he became aware of the problem with the voter registrations after the Seattle Times article
appeared. He then conducted an internal review, and then contacted the King County Prosecuting Attorney's
Office. Mellor believed the problem began after Mitchell assumed the PO position.
Mellor attempted to contact Brianna during his review, but she would not return his calls.
Mellor confirmed that the one-thousand-plus voter registrations were delivered to King County after the deadline.
However, he said, ACORN policy is to have them in on time.
Mellor said that the local manager reports to the regional manner about operations, like number of voter
registrations collected, any problems, etc.
Mellor said that ACORN got paid for collecting the voter registrations by Project Vote. ACORN is paid per
application.
Reporting Officers Name:
Johnson, Christopher T.
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