Convicted ACORN Worker Sentenced to 10 Months in Jail for Vote Fraud in Wisconsin

MacIver News Service | November 18, 2010

[Milwaukee, Wisc..] Kevin Clancy, a former ACORN voter registration worker, has been sentenced to 10 months in a Wisconsin jail for vote fraud.

Clancy was convicted of election fraud arising out of the November 4, 2008, Presidential election. He was charged with one count of Falsely Procuring Voter Registration as Party to a Crime by the Election Fraud Task Force, a collaborative effort between the Wisconsin Department of Justice, the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office and the Milwaukee Police Department.

“Like all rights, the right to vote must be protected,” said Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen upon sentencing. “I remain commited to lawfully conducted elections and elections undiminished by illegally cast ballots. Our election integrity efforts are working.”

According to the criminal complaint, Clancy served as a Special Registration Deputy (“SRD”) for the City of Milwaukee in advance of the 2008 Presidential Election. He worked for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a beleaguered association of communit activists known by the acronym ACORN.

Clancy plead guilty to the charge and admitted to submitting multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals, and also being part of a scheme in which he and other SRDs registered each other to vote multiple times in order to meet voter registration quotas imposed by ACORN.

“The integrity of elections is dependent upon citizens and officials insisting they be conducted lawfully,” Van Hollen told MacIver News on the day Clancy entered his plea. “Wisconsin’s citizens should not have to wonder whether their vote has been negated or diminished by illegally cast ballots.”

Judge Richard Sankovitz ordered Clancy’s sentence in this case to run consecutive to another sentence he is serving in prison for armed robbery, and said Clancy’s crime helped erode the confidence of voters in the electoral system. Clancy faced a maximum penalty of up to 3 ½ years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.

Clancy’s co-defendant and former coworker, Maria Miles, pleaded guilty to a similar charge and is scheduled for sentencing December 6, 2010, at 8:30 a.m.

In July, Van Hollen announced the launch of a joint Elections Integrity Task Force Efforts with District Attorneys in eleven of Wisconsin’s largest counties.

That multijurisdictional action team follows the partnership in Milwaukee County, which investigated and prosecuted Clancy. According to Van Hollen, the expanded, and bipartisan, Task Force will develop and share information, resources, tactics and strategy regarding matters involving election integrity and the enforcement of Wisconsin’s elections laws. It was the Milwaukee collaboration that led to today’s conviction.

Prior to the November 2008 election, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm announced the creation of the Election Fraud Task Force, a multi-jurisdictional action team that evaluates, investigates and prosecutes complaints of electoral fraud. The Department of Justice and the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office work cooperatively with local law enforcement and the Milwaukee Police Department as needed when investigation is required.

Status of Other Vote Fraud Cases

Source: Wisconsin Department of Justice

DOJ Cases:
Frank Walton
Charge: Falsely Procuring Voter Registration (Felony Class I)
Next date: December 6, 2010, for sentencing
Walton was a special registration deputy (“SRD”) who solicited voter registrations while working for the Community Voter Project (“CVP”).

Michael Henderson
Charges: Voting by a Disqualified Person (Felon) (Felony Class I)
Providing False Information to an Election Official (Felony Class I)
Next date: November 19, 2010, for motion decision on defense constitutional challenge
This is a felon voter case. Milwaukee Public Defender is challenging the felon voter prohibition.

Maria MilesCharge: Falsely Procuring Voter Registration –as party to a crime (Felony Class I)

Next date: October 15, 2010, for sentencing
Former ACORN Special Registration Deputy.

Herbert Gunka
Suzanne Gunka

Charge: Double Voting (Felony Class I)
Next date: November 15, 2010, for final pretrial
January 24, 2011, for jury trial
Husband and wife voted by absentee ballot and at the polls.

David Lewis
Charge: Voting by a Disqualified Person (Felon) (Felony Class I)
Providing False Information to an Election Official (Felony Class I)
Sentence: Count 1: 20 days incarceration, $250 fine; Count 2: Dismissed

Ramon Martinez–Closed
Charge: Voting by a Disqualified Person (Felon) (Felony Class I)
Sentence: 30 days incarceration, $750 fine

Milwaukee County Cases:
Endalyn Adams– CLOSED
Charge: Falsely Procuring Voter Registration – as party to a crime (Felony Class I)
Sentence: 15 months IC, 15 months ES –imposed and stayed; 3 years probation; Community service

Adams worked for CVP as a SRD.

Adam Mucklin–CLOSED

Charges: Providing False Information to Election Official (Felony Class I)
Intentional Violation of Election Duty (Felony Class I)
Sentence: Both charges were amended to attempted offenses, making each misdemeanors (attempt to commit a Class I felony)
Count 1: 4 months incarceration
Count 2: 7 months incarceration imposed and stayed with 1 year probation
Mucklin was a convicted felon on active supervision while working for CVP. He registered himself to vote (while on active felony supervision) and also registered others as an SRD.

Latoya Lewis– CLOSED
Charge: Falsely Procuring Voter Registration (Felony Class I)
Sentence: 12 months incarceration –

imposed and stayed
3 years probation
3 months incarceration as condition of probation
Lewis and her mother were employed by ACORN as SRDs.

Lavelle Morris–CLOSED

Charges: Voting by Disqualified Person (Felon) (Felony Class I)
Providing False Information to Election Official (Felony Class I)
Sentence: Count 1: 90 days incarceration
Count 2: Dismissed and read-in
This is a felon voter case.

L.B. Dean –CLOSED

Charges: Voting by Disqualified Person (Felon) (Felony Class I)
Providing False Information to Election Official (Felony Class I)
Sentence: Count 1: 60 days incarceration
Count 2: Dismissed and read-in
This is a felon voter case.

Stephen Wroblewski – CLOSED
Charge: Providing False Information to Obtain Absentee Ballot (Misdemeanor)
Sentence: $500 fine
Wroblewski obtained an absentee ballot in his late-wife’s name in order to “fulfill her dying wish”to vote for Obama.

Edward Johnson –CLOSED

Charges: Voting by Disqualified Person (Felon) (Felony Class I)
Providing False Information to Election Official (Felony Class I)
Sentence: Count 1: 90 days jail with huber release
Count 2: Dismiss and read-in
This is a felon voter case.

Orlando Maclin
Charges: Voting by Disqualified Person (Felon) (Felony Class I)
Providing False Information to Election Official (Felony Class I)
Next date: November 19, 2010, for motion decision on defense constitutional challenge
This is a felon voter case. Tagging along with the Michael Henderson case.

Veronica Toney
Charges: Voting by Disqualified Person (Felon) (Felony Class I)
Providing False Information to Election Official (Felony Class I)
Next date: January 31, 2011, for Jury Trial
This is a felon voter case.

Leon Pendleton
Charges: Voting by Disqualified Person (Felon) (Felony Class I)
Providing False Information to Election Official (Felony Class I)
Next date:
This is a felon voter case.

Tyrone Stephens
Charges: Voting by Disqualified Person (Felon) (Felony Class I)
Providing False Information to Election Official (Felony Class I)
Next date:
This is a felon voter case.

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