The Acorn Story (this should be on the DU front page)

[Bread and Circus]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17fri1.html?ref=opinion

Editorial
The Acorn Story

Acorn is a nonprofit group that advocates for low- and moderate-income people and has mounted a major voter-registration drive this year. Acorn says that it has paid more than 8,000 canvassers who have registered about 1.3 million new voters, many of them poor people and members of racial minorities.

In recent weeks, the McCain campaign has accused the group of perpetrating voter fraud by intentionally submitting invalid registration forms, including some with fictional names like Mickey Mouse and others for voters who are already registered.

Based on the information that has come to light so far, the charges appear to be wildly overblown — and intended to hobble Acorn’s efforts.

The group concedes that some of its hired canvassers have turned in tainted forms, although they say the ones with phony names constitute no more than 1 percent of the total turned in. The group also says it reviews all of the registration forms that come in. Before delivering the forms to elections offices, its supervisors flag any that appear to have problems.

According to Acorn, most of the forms that are now causing controversy are ones that it flagged and that unsympathetic election officials then publicized.

Acorn’s critics charge that it is creating phony registrations that ineligible voters could use to cast ballots or that a single voter could use to vote multiple times.

Acorn needs to provide more precise figures about problem forms and needs to do a better job of choosing its canvassers.

But for all of the McCain campaign’s manufactured fury about vote theft (and similar claims from the Republican Party over the years) there is virtually no evidence — anywhere in the country, going back many elections — of people showing up at the polls and voting when they are not entitled to.

Meanwhile, Republicans aren’t saying anything about another more serious voter-registration scandal...

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DU'ers, I implore you, please kick and recommend this post and posts with articles like these. The "McTongue" stuff on the front page makes us look like a bunch of fools, worthy of the derision that is sometimes heaped on the "blogosphere".

[JeffR]

1. Hell yes I'll K & R this

:kick:

[Historic NY]

4. Me too people have to know the good they do!!! Asshats trying to wreck them.

[madmax]

2. k & r

[madmax]

3. k & r

[City Lights]

5. K&R

[KathieG]

6. K&R

:kick:

[democracy1st]

7. K & R

[Sodan]

8. K&R

[political_Dem]

9. K and R'd.

Very substantive.

[Vapor Trails]

10. k&r

[Cha]

11. A filthy rove manuever .."accuse them of

what you're doing".

[CarbonDate]

12. K & R

ACORN's real "crime" is registering black people to vote; no more, no less.

[Champion Jack]

13. KICKED

[City Lights]

14. This thread needs more recs. nt

[glitch]

15. K & R nt

[Lugnut]

16. K&R n/t

[pleah]

17. K&R!!!!!!!

[99th_Monkey]

18. Another thing ACORN needs to do, is drop the "quota" requirements for voter reg. workers

I did voter reg. for ACORN in run-up to '04 election, and I know from experience that ACORN
has quotas for average numbers of voters registered per day/week. Workers are very aware
of this and want to keep their jobs; and when a worker has a string of "bad days" there is
tremendous pressure to get at least just enough to make "quota".

I understand the need for an employer to have some standards of productivity, so I'm not
sure what the answer to this is; but I know that (aside from GOP moles doing it deliberately)
that this IS the reason for most of the bogus cards.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Obama's lawyer has petitioned the AG of the USA to appoint special counsel to investigate. Link:

Obama's lawyer Bauer has petitioned the AG of the USA to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the McCain / Republican use of false hysteria over voter fraud as a means to interfere with the election. Link:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=anlSbwVX9jJI&refer=home

There is also a DU thread recently about this, got lots of recs.

[jillan]

20. What's so sad is the repugs smeared, and maybe even harmed, a very worthwhile nonprofit organization

that has helped alot of people when they really needed the help. :(

[Larry L. Burks]

21. The vote is rigged

After they deleted my name off the voter's list last election. Taylor county Tx.
I had to reregister in order to vote.
I voted straight ticked Democrat by way of absentee ballot.
Vote is in the mail.
The state will not release any info of how many names have been deleted off the voters list. They destroy the record as they go.
They think that they are safe by doing so.
Not true.
The FBI can take the hard drives of their computers and pull back up any file that has been deleted.
The state has an off site back up. A snap shot of the state's voters list. Done daily.
There are ways that the FBI can use to prove voter fraud by way of deleting at will legal voters from the voters list.
Looks like a lot of people are going to go to jail.
It's illegal to destroy public record. ( 25 years in the pin. )
If you destroy a voter's record. It's Voter Fraud. ( 25 years in the pin )
If you destroy evidence in a felony case. Voter fraud. ( 25 years in the pin )
Bush has tied the FBI's hands in this matter.
Obama is going to prosecute.
Obama is going to take the chain out from around the nick of the FBI.
And turn them loose.

This is hot.......

I have some hot stuff on Mc Cain. It's about some thing that he said in the debate last week.
He said it twice. No one else caught it. But I did.
Mc Cain said that he was put in charge of the investigation of 9/11.
Bush put his right hand man. Mc Cain in charge of the Cover up of 9/11. Is what happened.
This goes All the way to the top. In Mc Cain own words.
We knew that some one very high up would have had to have did this.
But we also knew that it would have had to been some one very high up. To cover it up.
Now we know.

Look at the law suit on Judy's page.

http://www.drjudywood.com/articles/NIST/Qui_Tam_Wood.shtml

[debbierlus]

22. I can't recommend it because the time expired but here's a kick

[onefreespiritedchick]

23. K & R n/t

[proReality]

24. K&R n/t