Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Hey if after the election if it can be proved that fraud due to ACORN was the reason Obama won I believe that a recall should be taken and if it turns out McCain would have won he should be given the nod.
What do the results have to do with this? Shouldn't these fraudulent activities be exposed and stopped regardless? Obviously ACORN can't/won't do it on their own despite their claims.
Isn't that what's happening now?
Is it being stopped? Seems to me ACORN and it's apologists are trying to dismiss the whole thing.
It's being exposed, that's the first step to stopping it. BTW did you read the post by Craig earlier in this thread? Well in case you missed it let me repost it
ACORN for decades has been a group interested in registering more voters. It's focused on the poor. It tends to hire people like homeless people, and other poor, to register voters.
It pays them by the registration, so sometimes the workers do wrong and submit phony registrations - they'll put in registrations for 'Mickey Mouse' or a bunch that they signed themselves, all with the same signature, to make a little extra money. *ACORN reviews every submitted registration form and researches every suspicious form*. ACORN supervisors make phone calls to verify the suspicious forms.
Now here's the kicker: ACORN is required by law to submit all the forms, no matter how obvious the problem. And so they break out the suspicous forms, and submit them as suspicious with the rest of the forms, because they have to. Republicans know they have to do this - and so they take advantage of it, by taking those forms submitted as suspicious, and then telling the media how they're proof of ACORN voter fraud.
(Some suspect the Republicans might even put people in as ACORN workers to submit some of the false forms, but it doesn't matter to the larger issue).
So, this is an outrageous lie by the Republicans. Their actual agenda is to *oppose* democracy by trying to minimize the number of new voters - mostly democratic - registered by making attacks they know are false against the group who is doing a great job at getting a lot of people registered.
Let's remember where the real corruption is - how the Bush administration pressured US Attorneys to file charges against ACORN for voter fraud, and when the US Attorneys did large investigations and found there were zero prosecutable cases from the investigations, the admnistration got rid of the Atorneys for refusing to file false prosecutions, behaving as the law should and does require.