By the way, in case you’re wondering, this is the real reason — about 1.3 million of them, actually — for the GOP’s desperate ACORN “voter fraud” scam…
Any questions? If so, first see this and then this, and then read the following list of ACORN FACTS before getting back to me with any of your questions, as I’m happy to help straighten you — or any of the clueless and lazy media folks who have fallen for the GOP’s “voter fraud” fraud — out, as needed.
The following FACT list is from a recent press release from ACORN, pointing out their success in registering hundreds of thousands of low-income voters whom few others care to go out and register, and the fact that in almost every instance where there have been concerns about registrations turned in by the group (by law, they must turn in all registration forms they collect, problematic or not), it has been ACORN themselves who have first notified officials about the potentially fraudulent or incomplete applications.
The following FACTS need to be read by everybody (apparently), even those who believe they are progressives, yet have fallen for the GOP’s Dixie-Chicking of ACORN…
Fact: ACORN flags in writing incomplete, problem, or suspicious cards when we turn them in,. Unfortunately, some of these same officials then come back weeks or months later and accuse us of deliberately turning in phony cards. In many cases, we can actually prove that these are the same cards we called to their attention.
Fact: Our canvassers are paid by the hour, not by the card . ACORN has a zero-tolerance policy for deliberately falsifying registrations, and in the cases where our internal quality controls have identified this happening we have fired the workers involved and turned them in to election officials and law-enforcement.
Fact: No criminal charges related to voter registration have ever been brought against ACORN or partner organizations. Convictions against individual former ACORN workers have been accomplished with our full cooperation, using the evidence obtained through our quality control and verification processes – evidence which in most cases WE called to the attention of authorities
Fact: Most election officials have recognized ACORN’s good work and praised our quality control systems. Even in the cities where election officials have complained about ACORN, the applications in question represent less than 1% of the thousands and thousands of registrations ACORN has collected.
Fact: Our accusers not only fail to provide any evidence, they fail to suggest a motive: there is virtually no chance anyone would be able to vote fraudulently, so there is no reason to deliberately submit phony registrations. ACORN is committed to ensuring that the greatest possible numbers of people are registered
ACORN will not be intimidated, we will not be provoked, and in this important moment in history we will not allow anyone to distract us from these vital efforts to empower our constituencies and our communities to speak for themselves.
Thank you, ACORN, for both the tireless work in support of democracy, and for not being intimidated by those who hate it, and who realize that if it exists, they cannot win elections.
Recently related…
10/7/08: ‘Stunt’ Raid at NV ACORN Office & the GOP ACORN Lie Revealed
10/8/08: RNC Issues Fox ‘News’ Transcript on ACORN ‘Voter Fraud’ as Press Release
10/9/08: GOP Election Official Claims ACORN ‘Voter Fraud’ in MO
10/9/08: GOP Sheriff Claims ‘Voter Fraud’ in Dem County in OH
10/12/08: IRONY: FL’s ‘Voting-Rigging’ Congressman Cries ‘Voter Fraud’ on Fox
Cant believe that there are no comments yet. I read the article, and all the articles linked to it. I have one question for you Brad. The 1.3 million new voters that ACORN registered. Is the number the total they collected, or the number they collected that they did not “flag” as possibly being bad? In other words is the 1.3 million a good number, or is the number closer to 1.2 million or less?
Also the Prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s wrote a letter to the New York Times saying he is “outraged” that the republicans are trying to link Ayers and Obama. See the link at http://www.republicantricks.com or
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/...of&st=cse
Seems ever since I can remember, the Pukes have been whining about ACORN because it offsets (cancels out) their suppression tactics.
Ayers was a fat cats kid most likely fighting against his daddy…(Daddy says ‘those damn liberal colleges!!!’)
Link
Yes, getting the word out helps, the more people know about righting the wrong is a good thing! Maybe the Repugs are worried about flipping votes, it’s easier just to discourage voters from voting…I know it is a naive question, but if a state is blamed for dumping voters from the voting lists, can’t they just go back and add the names??..
Thanks for posting this, Bub!
Do the Republicans play the corporate media like a fiddle, or is the corporate media “in on it”? That’s the only question that I have. I think they’re “in on it”, we’ll see if there’s retractions or reporting by them of ACORN’s side, or if they’ll cover Sarah Palin’s late Friday “abuse of power” announcement on Monday. Or will the continue simply being a megaphone for anything and everything the Republicans throw against the wall!
So, if ACORN pays canvassers by the hour, not the card, there is little reason for fraudulent cards. If organized election fraud is the goal, then it would take an army of volunteers going from polling place to polling place, posing as these fraudulent registrants to sway an election. Nearly impossible to do. Also, there is no logical reason for registrations under names such as Mickey Mouse or the the Dallas Cowboys starting line-up. That just calls attention to a likely fraudulent card.
The most logical explanation I see, beyond mere stupidity on the part of the canvassers, is a deliberate attempt to sabotage ACORNS efforts using planted canvassers. But who would do such a thing?
Answer; Rovians, relying on the power of rumor and innuendo to destroy a perceived enemy.
But- for the hell of it, everyone, copy the main press release and send it to Lou Dobbs, Jack Cafferty, Keith Olbermann and the local fishwrapper!
I have read the info on Acorn and Acorn’s own response to charges of voter fraud.
It seems no one who makes this charge ever says that there has been any actual proof of voter fraud because of false registration forms.
Why hasn’t CNN and particularly Lou Dobbs added these responses and facts to their reporting?
#7, read #4 and you’ll get it
I must admit, I didn’t reply because I am at a total loss of words or ideas that are acceptable in a civil society. It’s like my country has been completely destroyed, and the people that care and swore an oath to not let this happen, can’t do anything about it. There’s too few of us now, and new laws have been created to make us irrelevant.
Without a television network media to tell the truth, no light will be shown on the cancer in government.
Without election cops that are going to go against the law enforcement cops, what point is anything anymore? Our country has been completely taken over, and is now run by unseen bankers. Corruption pays well, while poverty get’s worse.
It probably won’t matter much longer because neither candidate has a ticket to hop aboard the cluetrain to fix the “TRUST PROBLEM” in the markets.
Anyone who has donated money to this site in order to presevre voting rights in this country should stop today. Every fraudulent vote that Acorn produced cancels the vote of a legal and rightful voter. Brads effort to cover this up shows us that he isnt interested in legal accurate voting, hes interested in party politics.
Brad, you should be ashamed.
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Excuse me? I canvassed for 6 months for the ’04 election (not for Acorn) so I know what canvassers go through. Some people will fill out a form using fake info because they don’t want to say no to you or they think its a joke. It doesn’t happen frequently, but its not uncommon. In those cases the registrations are flagged, and as Brad reported, MUST be handed over regardless of whether they are already flagged as fraudulent. This is to ensure voter registration groups aren’t suppressing registrations from any particular party or group. Of course, if the GOP had their way, a major registrar of poor & minority voters in swing states would be shut down, for doing nothing other than following their legal requirement of reporting false registrations. This may also be a tactic to try and push them to start trashing flagged registrations (which really would be illegal), fortunately they are not falling for it, and all this attention as probably helped them ALOT with new registrations!
Reporting the truth about a false propaganda effort isn’t a “cover up”. Obviously you are bothered by how thoroughly this report debunks the GOP voter disenfranchisement campaign.
The release says that is the number of voters they have registered, a flagged form is not registered, so they would not be counted in registration totals.
This has been the case through many elections. Absolute lies against a candidate are flung onto the news . . . proof to substantiate they were lies are uncovered byut never aired.
Why hasn’t the MEDIA Covered the McCain camp ACTUALLY MAILING FAKE absentee ballots & registration cards from Florida to Oregon?
http://michiganmessenger.com/42...-rove-the-vote
http://www.ickypeople.com/2008/...e-ballots.html
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1OkF6J
http://productshopnyc.com/htdoc...residents.html
Jesus loves me, this I know,
Sarah Palin tells me so;
George Bush and John McCain,
They are dumb, but she’s insane!
Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but it’s not to hard to come up with a scenario in which a group (ACORN) intentionally uses the registration rules to their own advantage. They (ACORN) state they turn in ALL voter registrations (even the known bad ones) because they are required to by law. This is well and good if, and only if, the ‘incorrect’ registrations are truly the sole fault of actual registrants. When your (ACORN’s) employees are the one’s committing the fraud that’s a whole different story. When it’s your own ‘upstanding’ employees that are simply copying names out of phone books, making addresses up and then signing all the registration forms in the same handwriting it is absolutely disingenuous to try and pretend that they are blameless in the problem. Gee, let’s hire a bunch of morons knowing full well there is a good chance they will simply turn in piles of garbage registrations just to make a little cash (or cigarettes and drugs as some have alleged). Now we have thousands and thousands of registrations we could have predicted in advance would be suspect at best. But hey, the law says we HAVE to turn them all in, so here you go … (fill in your favorite swing state election board here) … we tried real hard to verify these and we were even so kind to flag all the ones we ‘think’ might be bad. Get back to us in six months when you (the election board) have had time to review them. (Heavy snickering and sarcasm here). Oh, we’re sorry, we didn’t realize that the election is in just two months, guess you better get busy checking those out.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.co...efraud26m.html
#17: Convicted? Really? That’s not what that article says at all. Not that I’m surprised, you understand. Without lies, some people wouldn’t have anything to say ever.
Thanks, CK, I must have been snoozing…. Plus, I think indicting those people this close to the election is illegal… or was.
http://crooksandliars.com/logan...-calls-investi
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm3KCEkZbMc
Seems Obama may end up getting Brad’s vote after all… getting serious about the election fraud it seems….