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What Richardson won’t say reveals more than what he does say

Richardson withdraws

Gov. Bill Richardson is withdrawing his name for consideration as U.S. Commerce Secretary, citing a federal investigation into a California company being investigated by the FBI. A call by the Independent to the governor’s spokesman was not immediately returned.

ACORN says its safeguards found many of the cards FBI will investigate

The group that ran the largest voter-registration drive in the state this year told reporters today that safeguards already in place helped to identify many of the 1,400 cards the FBI is investigating as “potentially fraudulent.”

FBI probing 1,400 voter registration forms

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened a preliminary probe into 1,400 “potentially fraudulent” voter registration forms in Bernalillo County, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver told the newspaper she had turned over the suspicious forms to law enforcement, and said that’s proof that her office’s review of forms that are submitted to her office works.