ACORN's Response to McCain's Lies [About Voter Fraud & the Wall Street Bailout]

From a fabulous article on the website Talking Points Memo:

"The Republican party is grasping on to the ACORN story as a way to delegitimize what now looks like the probable outcome of the November election. It is also a way to stoke the paranoia of their base, lay the groundwork for legal challenges of close outcomes in various states and promote new legal restrictions on legitimate voting by lower income voters and minorities. The big picture is that these claims of 'voter fraud' are themselves a fraud, a tool to aid in suppressing Democratic voter turnout. But I want give readers a bit more detail to understand what is going because the right-wing freak out about ACORN happens pretty much on schedule every two years. The whole scam is premised on having enough people who don't remember when they tried it before who they can then confuse and lie to. And this is clearly important because I'm hearing from a lot of people whose heart is in the right place thinking some real voter fraud conspiracy has been uncovered and that Obama has to distance himself from it post-haste.

ACORN registers lots of lower income and/or minority voters. They operate all across the country and do a lot of things beside voter registration. What's key to understand is their method. By and large they do not rely on volunteers to register voters. They hire people -- often people with low incomes or even the unemployed. This has the dual effect of not only registering people but also providing some work and income for people who are out of work. But because a lot of these people are doing it for the money, inevitably, a few of them cut corners or even cheat. So someone will end up filling out cards for nonexistent names and some of those slip through ACORN's own efforts to catch errors. (It's important to note that in many of the recent ACORN cases that have gotten the most attention it's ACORN itself that has turned the people in who did the fake registrations.) These reports start buzzing through the right-wing media every two years and every time the anecdotal reports of 'thousands' of fraudulent registrations turns out, on closer inspection, to be either totally bogus themselves or wildly exaggerated. So thousands of phony registrations ends up being, like, twelve."

You are kidding right?  2800 people faced charges in 2006 due to fraudulent paperwork turned in.  It is hard to say the ACORN Obama connection is a lie when he defended them as a lawyer, Taught classes to Acorn and gave them 835,000 dollars for advance work.  I am sorry but Acorn is deep in Obama and his campaign, In the days to come this information will become more public.  A campaign is not supposed to fund a group thats main intent is to get a democrat elected.  Especially when they are listed as a non partisan organization. I wonder why they are in 10 swing states pushing Obama on those they sign up?  I was part of the teleconference tis week and it is clear that they are partisan trying to elect Obama.  It is against the rules to be partisan if you get federal dollars.

I do agree that the Acorn voter registration fraud is really bad and hopefully will be cleared up before the election.  I may have a skeptical mind, but it just seems like this is a setup by the Republican party (meaning some of the workers did it intentionally).   I would like someone to investigate whether the fraud goes deepers than what we see on the surface.  As I said, while I think it is bad, many of us feel that it was a setup from the beginning - the Republican October surprise.