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- pintomp3, on 10/14/2008, -16/+196funny how the corporate media is making a big deal out of the acorn thing, even though that is not voter fraud. meanwhile taking away the right to vote of millions of citizens goes unreported.
- awasson, on 10/14/2008, -21/+153Recently, the GOP chairman in Macomb County, Michigan, detailed a plan to use a list of foreclosed homes to challenge voters.
What a disgusting individual.... Is it any wonder that he ended up in jail?
The only way the Republicans will ever regain any semblance of respectability is if they eject these lowlifes from their ranks. - TacoHell, on 10/14/2008, -7/+65And there's more - This was just shown on the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7658182. ...
- nc1024, on 10/14/2008, -31/+87Please Digg this this..
- redcolumbine, on 10/14/2008, -7/+55That's WHY the corporate media are trying to make ACORN look bad. It's covering fire for voter suppression tactics like this one.
- Sogladtobehere, on 10/14/2008, -12/+57Ask not for whom the bell tolls GOP, it tolls for thee. Anyone who votes for Republicans after this story breaks in the MSM must hate democracy.
- flipmoe, on 10/14/2008, -11/+50We need to get rid of the electoral college.
It shouldn't matter what state I happen to be in, or live in, on Nov 4th. As a US Citizen I should be able to walk into any polling station with my Social Security number and fracking vote. - inactive, on 10/14/2008, -13/+49I lol @ America!
You have a drivers License, ID card, green card, social security card and last known address. What more does a person need to be a citizen. I am registered to vote, but the address is 15 years ago....Should they wish to find me, they have my social security number...
yet I can't vote because "I don't actually live anywhere in particular"....good onya America... - ErickStevenson, on 10/14/2008, -12/+43Well I don't see this being covered in the news anytime soon...
- riggs32, on 10/14/2008, -6/+34i live in macomb and am disgusted that this type of fraud is happening in my state. I'm even more upset that i have to come to digg to hear about something happening in the community i actually live in. how the hell is not only the msm, but the local media totally ignoring this?
- disparue, on 10/14/2008, -1/+27FTA: Judge Stephen J. Murphy of the U.S. District Court of Michigan's Eastern District concluded that the program of eliminating these voters from rolls is in violation of federal law.
- chrisgnv, on 10/14/2008, -2/+27GOP Response: If you check the report, sir, you will find we did nothing wrong nor illegal.
- surferjoemaui, on 10/14/2008, -18/+42abhorrent, loathsome, offensive, appalling, outrageous, objectionable, shocking, horrifying, scandalous, monstrous, unspeakable, shameful, vile, odious, obnoxious, detestable, hateful, sickening, contemptible, despicable, deplorable, abominable, beyond the pale, revolting, repellent, repulsive, sickening, nauseating, stomach-churning, stomach-turning, off-putting, unpalatable, distasteful, foul, nasty, vomitous, *****!
- MHunt, on 10/14/2008, -0/+23Every LEGAL vote gets counted once and only once would be nice.
- cle2105, on 10/14/2008, -11/+34Republicans will do anything to keep the least of society from voting. Whatever happened to WWJD, hypocritical evangelical *****?
- pintomp3, on 10/14/2008, -3/+26there have been a total of 24 proven cases of voter fraud. 1.6 million people have had their names purged and their right to vote illegally taken away. which one seems like the bigger problem to you?
- wendelgee2, on 10/14/2008, -3/+24It goes like this:
1) ACORN is legally required to submit all voter registration forms that are filled out. Some of them they flag as being suspect. Others slip by them, and it is on the election board to uncover any fraud. Now, if an employee of ACORN is registering fake voters, or registering voters multiple times in order to make a buck, that is registration fraud and should be punished. ACORN has flagged those works when they discover such incidents and reported them to authorities.
2) If I register James Smith twice to vote, elections boards will flag that as a dupe and delete. No big deal, happens all the time. People forget whether they're registered at their current address and reregister. This will not result in fraud.
3) If I register Mickey Mouse to vote, Mickey Mouse will not show up to vote. No fraud.
4) If I register James Smith multiple times in multiple districts, it is still on him to commit the fraud of going to different voting places and voting multiple times. So, any widespread attempt at fraud would require a vast conspiracy of private citizens willing to risk severe fines and imprisonment without any hope of monetary gain on their end. That fraud is the fault of the private citizen. - happytrees, on 10/14/2008, -14/+35lol @ the picture.
obama must win by a landslide, because the plot to steal the election is already in progress.
vote! - oldhick, on 10/14/2008, -2/+22FYI, not defending the GOP, just helping educate someone on why your address is important.
Elections are run locally. You vote not only for the President, but for your school board, your city council, your Congressmen, and Senators. All of those other "non-important" people you will be voting for require that the election office knows which district you live in. Once they know the correct district, they can provide you with the correct ballot. - Ender61, on 10/14/2008, -4/+23it would be registration fraud, not voter fraud.
- davidrools, on 10/14/2008, -2/+20ACORN is required to submit all the voter applications they collect. Some are fraudulent. They notify the officials of the fraudulent applications they receive and turn them in, as they're required to do. Some of those fraudulent applications end up getting processed, but not at the fault of ACORN.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/gops-a ... - secrity, on 10/14/2008, -1/+19I wouldn't mind a national voter registration card, but a Social Security card should never be used for voter identification. Your Social Security number should never be used for anything other than for income tax and Social Security; it is not an identification card.
- FreddieD, on 10/14/2008, -0/+17I grit my teeth every time I see that NBC commercial with political director Chuck Todd saying "You know what's great about America? Everybody's vote counts the same, whether you're a CEO or anybody else".
NO IT DOESNT. I live in Kansas, my presidential vote won't mean jack *****. An undecided voter in Ohio or Florida is infinitely more important than an undecided voter in a state where Obama or McCain are up by 30 points.
Hell, my vote would at least mean more if I lived 15 miles more to the east and was in Missouri. I'm trying to make deals with my conservative buddies that I'll vote McCain if they vote Obama, but so far no dice. - inactive, on 10/14/2008, -11/+27So where are the right wing shills to condemn this?
Are they so busy screaming about ACORN that they haven't noticed?
Gee, looks like they don't actually care about voters, but are just pushing illegal GOP actions.
Typical. - psuchad, on 10/14/2008, -3/+19How about we do what they did in Iraq? Dip your finger in ink that lasts for days to prove you voted already.
Oh that might make those that didn't vote feel bad and we can't have that. Everyone gets a trophy. - Aadain, on 10/14/2008, -0/+15"The only way the Republicans will ever regain any semblance of respectability is if they eject these lowlifes from their ranks."
There goes 99% of the Republican leadership. Seriously, that's not a joke, I truly believe most if not all of the people in the upper echelons of leadership in the Republican party are criminals/lowlifes. They don't even try to hide it most of the time. - Schrodinger2, on 10/14/2008, -2/+17exactly. I don't give a ***** about local douchebag politicians. Hold a separate election for them when. I'm voting for president and it shouldn't matter where in the US I am.
- ashwinmudigonda, on 10/14/2008, -3/+18America should be ashamed of calling itself a "democracy" and "free world" and ***** like that if the fundamentals of democracy are undermined. In developing countries, rivals hire armed goons and thugs to force voters to vote for one party. Here, it also happens. Only at a different level, like voter purging (That is actually worse. You just deny the person the right to even get till the voting booth). The fact that it is even happening and that voting is not treated as a fundamental right is a farce. Right there, the system fails. People are truly not being represented and the government that gets "elected" by close margins could actually be a fallacy.
America boasts a robust system of being able to track every citizen's existence in the country by the SSN. Why can't the system be adapted to register voters based only on their SSN's? - wendelgee2, on 10/14/2008, -2/+17Could you please link to the story confirming this incident, as well as confirming that this was a voter registered by ACORN?
Thanks. - DarkPrincess74, on 10/14/2008, -4/+18Untwisted logic = Someone who is against registration of minorities to vote takes a job with ACORN and then intentionally screws around with the registrations to make the group look bad. ACORN goes to verify it but can't be sure so attaches a note to the registration for the voter registration office. The office ignores the warning and then accuses ACORN of intentionally trying to do something wrong.
- kingmanic, on 10/14/2008, -1/+14There is a technology called a "database". Amazingly you can enter in information in real time and other people accessing that data can tell you already voted. I know it's a crazy idea, those darned intellectual elites.
- forgiste, on 10/14/2008, -6/+19My question is, how do you not lose faith in your party, when you have to resort to flat-out lying in order to win?
- ncc74656m, on 10/14/2008, -7/+18Of course it is. Are they Republicans? Are they purging voters? Then of course it's illegal! The Republican's don't "do legal."
- RDinSB, on 10/14/2008, -2/+13ACORN pays people to register people to vote - the more people you get the more money you get. They are trained and sign documents that state they will not purger or forge or commit fraud - but hey its money. So, over the years people who have worked with ACORN have been fraudulent regarding voter registration to get extra cash. ACORN must by law turn in all voter registrations -> REGARDLESS of how fraudulent it seems. ACORN will and does and has in each case so far flagged these registrations as suspicious for the secretary of states of the corresponding states where this fraud has occurred. ACORN has and will continue to assist the legal prosecution of people who worked for them in registering people to vote who committed fraud. ACORN is not a bad organization - hell, in 2006 JOHN MCAIN was the KEYNOTE SPEAKER at an ACORN rally.... so... I know its confusing, because no one is talking the truth about this whole situation.
BESIDES - you really think the Dallas cowboys or Mikey Mouse is gonna show up somewhere to vote on Nov 4th?? This is fraud - not VOTER Fraud, but voter registration fraud (for profit or negligence or maleficence), since none of these extra registrations will ever amount to an extra vote.
Have a nice day. - doublefelix, on 10/14/2008, -0/+11I'm taking a Switzerland-like stance on your comment because:
A) The GOP chairman of Macomb County DOES sound like a disgusting individual.
B) He's not the person quoted in the article for having done prison time for a 2002 elections phone jamming scheme. - WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -1/+11"We need to force some 'change' on the system so that only gainfully employed Americans are allowed to vote."
Oh yes indeed! And while we're at it, let's bring debtor's prison - *that* was a charming idea, I do really sort of miss that.... And those child-labor and safe-workplace laws have simply *got* to go as well - talk about infringing on the God-given right of your poor average downtrodden pulled-himself-up-by-his-bootstraps capitalist! Marxist *****, all of it!
Come to think of it, why should someone be allowed to vote just because they work? All sorts of undesirables can find *work* - what we *really* need is a system that only enables property-owners to vote - that way you *know* they will have a vested interest in the good of the country. And it will make voter registration oh-so-much easier too.... Someone remind me why we bothered to leave England in the first place? - swrostmore, on 10/14/2008, -2/+12and on digg -
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Greg_Palast_BBC_ ... - stealthc, on 10/14/2008, -6/+16Aww how cute. A Judge found a politician violating a federal law. They almost never do that anymore.
- Demener, on 10/14/2008, -2/+11No, they just scan the foreclosure list, including people who haven't actually been evicted yet and might catch up on payments.
- Naieve, on 10/14/2008, -0/+9I find this guy completely abhorrent.
Yet I must say that the Democrats not only reelected William Jefferson after he was caught in an FBI sting taking a 100k bribe, with 90k of it found in his freezer, but while the case has gone on two years have passed, and he has once again won the Democratic Primary...
So you are going to twice reelect a man caught red handed taking a bribe.
Then there is Harry Reid's Real Estate deal...
How about you guys start looking at both parties and getting angry at ALL the corrupt officials.... - 5urr3al5am, on 10/14/2008, -2/+11I guess the question comes down to what is the master record for the citizens who live in that area. We definitely need checks and balances in place to assure that every vote gets counted and that people who show up at the voting booth on election day are who they say they are.
- bodger, on 10/14/2008, -6/+15A) It's being carried out by a right-wing political party.
B) It's a tactic to reduce the number of votes from a demographic considered to be likely to vote against them.
You can argue about the morality all you want, but it clearly IS a right-wing tactic. - GastricContents, on 10/14/2008, -2/+11Exactly. Because if the last 8 years have taught us anything, it's that democrats can win any election they want!
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No. - pintomp3, on 10/14/2008, -2/+10that racist religious nut? no thanks. someone should tell him the south shall not in fact rise again.
- DarkPrincess74, on 10/14/2008, -7/+15Republicans can't violate laws because they don't believe in them. In the Republican playbook laws are meant to be bent, broken, pushed aside, ignored and generally warped when they want something. I'm not saying most politicians don't skirt the laws but the Republicans of late have been taking it to a whole new level. The Republican faithfully applies the law when they can use it to destroy and denigrate their rivals and when they can support and aide their corporate friends.
- DarkPrincess74, on 10/14/2008, -2/+10Corporations love Republicans for the most part and the news is corporate owned for the most part. Fox News is the only one that is blatant with its republican bias and I think most other media tries to be unbiased but I'm sure corporations influence the news at some level regardless.
- flipmoe, on 10/14/2008, -0/+8No, I have no problem with it at all. If the DMV, IRS, Social Security Office, or even a frickin' credit card application, can lookup my info by Social, why can't the voting mechanism in the US?
Also, it's pretty damn easy to count the number of times your particular vote was cast in various polling stations, and nullify all votes based on attempted voter fraud. - sphoony, on 10/14/2008, -7/+14I guess when the GOP wanted to spread democracy to the rest of the world, they didn't mean the U.S.
- SpinningHead, on 10/14/2008, -1/+8I love when conservatives talk about how they are the only ones that work hard and then elect people who want to remove capital gains taxes so i am taxed at a higher rate for money i work for than paris hilton is on money that rolls in from her investments.
- aelias, on 10/14/2008, -1/+8When I voted this year, they had a guy running up and down the line asking people if they needed to update their address. I handed the guy my form, and he let me back in line exactly where I was before. Maybe it only works that way when you vote early?
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