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The Complete Guide to ACORN Voter Fraud
pajamasmedia.com — More than two dozen ACORN workers have been convicted of election related crimes in Missouri, and were responsible for thousands and thousands of fraudulent voter registrations. And that was just in Missouri. Currently there are ongoing investigations of ACORN in North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Nevada, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Texas...
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- novaculus, on 10/14/2008, -1/+11Not to mention Wisconsin, Florida, and New Mexico.
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"So far this year at least 14 states have started investigations against ACORN. Talk about a culture of corruption. It is so bad that Representatives of Congress have asked for the Justice Department to investigate, and GOP presidential candidate John McCain is bringing it up in his stump speeches. The Obama camp is stealthily altering its “Fight the Smears” website to distance themselves from the organization — quite a challenge considering how close their candidate’s association has been with the group.
The liberal vs. conservative, voter fraud vs. voter intimidation debate will no doubt continue after this election. But this year, with the assistance of scandal-plagued ACORN, it appears that — so far — the voter fraud side is winning."- gbudavid, on 10/15/2008, -0/+2and Washington State
- MadKennyP, on 10/14/2008, -10/+1Gerald Hebert, a retired U.S. Department of Justice voting rights expert who served under Republican and Democratic presidents, says the kind of fraud that the GOP is charging ACORN with — deliberately registering fictitious people or registering the same person in two different precincts — is extremely rare.
In the case of ACORN activists convicted of fraud in Missouri, Hebert says ACORN itself had “actually turned those people in to the local district attorney and to the feds, saying these people had been engaging in fictitious registration forms. None of those people actually voted, and none of them even got registered, because ACORN called attention to the fact that these were likely bogus applications.”
“I don’t think voter fraud is the problem that a lot of people claim it is,” Hebert says. “To the extent that there is any voter fraud, based on my 35 years of practicing election law, the most common types deal with absentee ballots, mail-in ballots. People will apply for a ballot on behalf of someone else, have it mailed to their address and try to vote it. Even that is not all that common, but it does happen. The kind of vote fraud, where people vote twice, happens rarely if at all.”- DreadPirate, on 10/14/2008, -0/+6MadkennyP - So you have no problem with ACORN polluting the voter registration system with thousands of invalid entries? These entries are one of the reason voter rolls have to be thinned out on a regular basis, something you and your fellow democrats bitch about on a regular basis.
- bluto36, on 10/14/2008, -0/+7no problem as long as it helps someone he supports. Ends justify the means and all that
- DreadPirate, on 10/14/2008, -0/+6MadkennyP - So you have no problem with ACORN polluting the voter registration system with thousands of invalid entries? These entries are one of the reason voter rolls have to be thinned out on a regular basis, something you and your fellow democrats bitch about on a regular basis.
- bluto36, on 10/14/2008, -0/+10in the big picture whats a little vote fraud to get the savior elected? this is just equaling the power base of the poor, thats all. anyone who has a problem with acorn is probably a racist anyway
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