ACORN?

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

What part of reform don't you understand?

"Sen. Claire McCaskill said phony voter registration forms are not the same thing as voter fraud."

Senator John Danforth said, "It is not ok to have fraudulent registration . . . The system has been swamped, and this is not a trivial matter. It is not ok."

Too many parts of the country are seeing voter registrations turned in which are bogus by the hundreds and probably thousands.  Nevada election officials got a packet of registrations with the names of the Dallas Cowboys football team.  In the Kansas City part of Missouri, especially Jackson County which includes Independence, hundreds of forms were turned in by unknown persons, often signed by the same person using different addresses and other IDs.

All this makes the recent Ohio early voting law intriguing.  Voters could register and vote the same day.  While other states and counties are processing voter applications, what did Ohio do to ensure voters were eligible?  Did these voters vote a provisional ballot?

Comments

[Ron]

Acorn is a tool of the democratic party. It's one of those 60's type organizations that needs to go. It is one of the type of organizations Obama would be proud to be associated with in the past, now, and in the future.

You reading Obama's mind now Ron? Your rhetoric has become so predictable it's laughable.

Love Doonesbury today: The Republican/Wall Street mantra:

Privatized Profit with Socialized Risk.

[Guest]

Acorn has a well documented history of voter fraud.
I don't think it's a stretch to assume Obama could be proud to be associated with Acorn given some of his past associations.
Of course,my comments will be dismissed by some as "playing the race card".

[Glad]

ACORN should be investigated under the RICO act, as well as under any other possible law. I actually agree with Ron, except that not only does it need to go, the perps should be prosecuted--from the top down and bottom up.

Re Doonesbury--most Republicans are disgusted with the excesses of those who are "excessive" regardless of their party affiliation. The writer of that post doesn't get it: we're all in trouble here, and there is blame enough to go around regardless of party affiliation...or not.

[Incredulous]

If you all really believe Obama would intentionally be involved in voter fraud, which is what is being said here, you are more hateful, paranoid, and/or racist than I imagined.

[Diane]

Of course Obama knew nothing.

This idea that any criticism of anything in his past or his past associations, is racism, is just head in the sand thinking or blind partisanship.

But it sure is a good way to deflect criticism while running for office.

[Ron]

Obama paid ACORN $800,000 to register voters in this election.

[Incredulous]

Diane, your post said nothing about Obama at all. But Ron's comments, which I was addressing, implied that Obama supports Voter Fraud. He didn't he mention a past association. And because Ron turns every negative thing he can find into a hateful statement about Obama it appears he is "hateful, paranoid, and/or racist" - one or more of the three.
So I stand by that statement; it has nothing to do with anyone criticizing past associations.

And ACORN aside (I know too little about ACORN to comment); because all organizations use paid persons to registrar voters there will be bogus registration cards. The people used are often homeless, and are usually persons young and in dire need of a few bucks. Every registration card they can get past the organization paying them is money in their pocket. While these bogus registration cards might be annoying to registration officals; it's highly doubtful Tony Romo or Terrel Owens was going to show up to vote in Nevada. And I think this is the distinction that McCaskill was trying to make.
And of course, none of this is new to 2008.

[Glad]

Incredulous, who's playing the race card here? I don't care if Obama is purple with red spots. His association with terrorists, backing socialist ACORN with its involvement in voter fraud, being part of the Chicago political machine, his association with Tony Rezko and a parade of other questionable figures, being the most liberal member of the Senate, his refusing to advance even the Born Alive bill in the Illinois senate and then lying about it, his stated positions on defense, and a host of other items are red flags to me.

Your conclusion that anyone who refuses to support him is being paranoid, hateful, and/or racist is just lame. Barack himself has labeled almost everything negative that comes up about him as off limits to talk about and plays the race card regularly. One can only wonder what would happen to free speech in this country if he were to be president.

[Ron]

Glad, not only do they try to sling the "racist mud", if you don't support Obama, they sling it if you even disagree with him. This from the party that talks about free speech. Whoa, to the Republic should Obama become president. He and the democratic party will attempt to limit free speech by shutting down conservative talk radio and television.