Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Here I am, at least attempting to discuss this ACORN issue with a straight face, and half my points get ignored.
Here it is again - the guy in your OP link, Darnell Nash, seems downright determined to vote more than once. Even the article you cited makes it sound like Ash and ACORN are connected, but it seems like his latest actions were taken independently:
But still, he breezed into Ohio election offices - the state allows early voting for president - reregistered with a fake address and cast a paper ballot, officials said.
"He came in on 9/30 and Mr. Nash again registered to vote at [someone else's] address, and he cast a ballot," said board official Jane Platten.
From what I can tell, Ash's latest attempt had zero to do with ACORN, considering he just waltzed into an election office and cast a paper ballot using fraudulent info.
Again, did ACORN somehow walk Ash into the election office and force him to vote under an assumed name and address? So riddle me this - how is it ACORN's fault?
Furthermore, how would it even be possible for ACORN to police the roughly 13,000 people they hired to register people to vote? You don't suspect that out of that many people, some of them are going to try and do something stupid?
Furthermore, out of all the "fraudulent" voter reg apps submitted, something like 5% of all apps from the Cleveland area, how many were ALREADY flagged by ACORN as fraudulent or problematic in some way?
It's interesting when these sources throw numbers around like this and yet there's no discussion of whether ACORN already flagged them or not.