claim: in 1992, barack obama directed "project vote - an arm of acorn that also encouraged voter registration."
author: john mccain
evidence_1: may 8, 2012 ... acorn and its voter registration arm, project vote, hire marginal and unskilled  workers at very low rates and use incentive bonuses or quotas to encourage  them to collect as many ... barack obama established his organizing bona fides  with project vote in 1992, when he registered 150,000 illinois voters.
evidence_2: john mccain · in 1992, barack obama directed "project vote - an arm of acorn  that also encouraged voter registration." — politifact national on friday, october  17th, 2008. false. small businesses are exempt. john mccain · if you're a small  business and don't "adopt the health care plan that senator obama mandates, ...
evidence_3: nov 1, 2008 ... obama's ties to acorn go back at least to 1992. that's the year he directed  voter registration for project vote, an acorn affiliate. obama helped train  acorn leaders, and he represented acorn in acorn v. edgar. the socialist  new party, which served as acorn's electoral arm, endorsed obama, ...
evidence_4: acorn's voter-mobilization arm, project vote, took in more than $12 million in  foundation grants from 1999-2008. project vote donors included the barbra  streisand foundation, the bauman family foundation, the beldon fund, the ben  & jerry's foundation, the carnegie corporation of new york, the hkh  foundation, the ...
evidence_5: there he trained acorn activists, and as a community organizer, directed and  mobilized acorn voter registration efforts. ever since then, project vote was  known as acorn's voter-mobilization arm. two years later, barack obama  served as acorn's lawyer, and he also continued to train ...