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ACORN Workers Registering Low-Income Voters

A lot of things happened with the U.S. Presidential Campaigns since Friday evening, but I just want to concentrate on issue in particular: ACORN and the sinking McCain-Bailin’ Campaign trying to push the meme that this election is being “stolen”.

Jed has a post that reports on a  HuffPo article by Tom Matzzi outlining how the Republican party, knowing it is going to lose this elecction, is trying to paint the Obama Campaign as “a bunch of thugs from Chicago”.

As election day draws closer, and McCain’s chances become ever more narrow, more and more of this desparate moves are going to come to the forefront.

Here is an except from Tom Matzzi’s article:

The facts about ACORN are worth getting out. ACORN is an organization that, among other things, registers low-income people to vote. One of the ways they do this is to hire door-to-door canvassers from the neighborhoods they are working in. This sort of work is tightly regulated. So, when one of the thousands of people they give jobs to doesn’t do their work right and brings back bogus or phony voter registration cards, the law REQUIRES that ACORN turn the forms in to the voter registration office. The law, rightly, doesn’t want anybody throwing out voter registration forms for any reason.

But ACORN goes a step farther. They have people assigned to do quality control on all the cards–calling people on the forms after they fill them out. When they find bad information on the cards they attach a cover sheet to the card but, as mentioned above, they turn in the cards as requires d by law. The effect is that a few bad canvassers or a poorly run office will mean that bad cards are submitted as part of the normal process. But ACORN has done everything possible to make sure voting officials know to check the forms.

The sad fact is that in at least one state–Nevada–the voting officials disregarded ACORN’s cover sheets flagging the voter registration forms. That should have never happened. The resulting blowup was a scandal in search of a scandal.

The stunning con of this whole thing is the assumption that bad voter registration cards being submitted will lead to vote fraud. If somebody submits a card for Mickey Mouse it isn’t like Mr. Mouse is going to show up to vote. There is no voter fraud if nobody votes.

For most of the country, the time for voter registration is over.

It is now time to GOTV: Get Out the Vote.

An Obama Landslide will seal the deal. Period. As for me, this one is voting for That One.

 

 

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