Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

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Below the PO is a Quality Control (QC) person who is
paid by the hour. The QC person for the Tacoma office was named
Brianna LNU'. Below the QC person are Team Leaders and Temporary
Workers, who are the personnel who actually go out into the
community and attempt to register voters. The workers are paid
approximately nine dollars per hour and work a five or six hour
shift. The Leaders make about a dollar more an hour. Team
Leaders and Temporary workers are hired from within the
community by newspaper ad and word of mouth.
When employees are hired to work for ACORN, they are
given a two hour orientation. The laws governing elections are
covered, including criminal violations. The first day a new
worker goes into the field is an "observation day", during which
the employee is monitored. ACORN does not normally provide
transportation to whatever registration sites the office decides
to work. Mellor did not know exactly how this part of the
process worked.
ACORN does not conduct a background investigation on
new hires. If' an applicant admits a felony on a job
application, the person may be hired anyway, depending on the
nature of the felony.
The Tacoma office was the only ACORN office in the
state of Washington. Mellor did not know the address but it was
a real office location and not someone's spare bedroom or
basement. From reviewing the records, it seemed that the Tacoma
office started conducting business around the beginning of July
2006 and ran through November of the same year. That office
sent out between ten and twenty workers a day and processed ,a
total of approximately fifteen thousand voter registration
cards.
Mellor described how the quality control process should
work. When the voter registration cards are returned to the
ACORN Office they are supposed to be reviewed for accuracy by
the QC and the PO. At the end of each shift the temporary
workers return to the office with their completed registration
cards and any extra cards that have not been filled out. Each
worker then completes a batch sheet, which summarizes that
worker's efforts for the shift. The worker places all of his
cards under the batch sheet and submits the package to the QC
person for review. The QC person reviews the cards for signs of
fraud, such as signatures that look alike. The QC person also