Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

Case #07-120588
May 24,2007 rev]
Witness Statement
Det.1 I
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Det.1
Did she call twenty percent of the cards or that twenty percent of the cards be verified?
Be verified. Um .. .it wasn't enough to merely make the call, you actually had to get
through to the person, talk to them ... verify that they were in fact the voter and that they
had in fact filled it out themselves.
Okay. All right.
And that the information on it was correct and complete. And I think that we were more
rigorous than that. .. than perhaps I had even seen in Baltimore. Um ... although there
were early on occasions wher~ Iwas more cursory in her discussion with the voter
and I cautioned her to ... go through the form more thoroughly.
Okay.
I have a question Anita ... from the beginning with your training at ACORN was it ... were
all of you told it's gonna be a given that there's gonna be people you hire that are ... that
are gonna sit down at the bar across the street and fill in cards and that's why this
whole ...
Witness: Yeah ... well we ...
Det.1
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Witness:
... process is in place?
we ... yeah ... we understood that people um ... people are kinda lazy ... especially the kind
of people that we were able to get for this kind of work.
So it was a recognized problem up front?
Oh yeah.
Okay.
Absolutely. And we looked for it. I think Brianna took great delight in um ... ferreting
out those cases where people were ... she ... she considered it kind of a coup to ... to
identify it and, and weed them out.
Okay. I was just curious.
She was uh ... more hard ass than I ever was.
That's why you had her in that position.
Yeah, absolutely. She kind of enjoyed the power I think.
Steve Hobbs: Um ...
Witness:
I'm much too easy going.
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