Acorn: the nonstory of the week

[comhcinc]

okay so the republicans are all upset at ACORN (http://www.acorn.org/) claim it is some kinda of massive voter fraud scheme. most of the "evidence" for this was provided by ACORN itself.


thoughts?

[rabidbadger]

Just another needless distraction from the loser. And a bunch of crap, ACORN legally HAD to turn them all in, no matter what the folks wrote on them. What ACORN did RIGHT was go through them and flag them as possibly fraudulent.

[tokenuser]

Interesting (http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=22383&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12340&cHash=ef14f35f55) ...

After a similar spate of charges against ACORN in 2006, we learned that then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had fired Republican U.S. Attorneys because they refused to prosecute ACORN and other voter assistance groups on trumped up fraud charges. This was the heart of the U.S. Attorney-gate scandal that led Karl Rove, Gonzales and other top Department of Justice officials to resign. Because the press didn’t catch on until long after the election, it was part of a successful strategy to create an unfounded specter of voter fraud and to suppress voting.

3. In nearly every case that has been reported , it was ACORN that discovered the bad forms, and called them to the attention of election authorities, putting the forms in a package that identified them in writing as suspicious, encouraging election officials to investigate, and offering to help with prosecutions. We are required by law to turn in all forms, but instead of just turning them in and figuring that it is the responsibility of the board of elections to figure out which are valid, we spend millions of dollars verifying that forms are valid, and then separate out those that are suspicious.

[masherscf]

The RNC hasn't an ounce of credibility left. There's no evidence that this ACORN thing isn't a complete fabrication. What's worse they're trying to use voter fraud to justify the charges that he's a terrorist. They just won't let that one go.

[rabidbadger]

God, I hope this comes up in the debate tonight, so "That One" can rip him a new "you-know-what"-hole.

[tokenuser]

God, I hope this comes up in the debate tonight, so "That One" can rip him a new "you-know-what"-hole.I think Barry will take the hgh road.

It provides a much beter position for sniping.

[bigshotprof]

ACORN is a scam, but it's a petty scam compared to the state of Texas in 2000 sending the state of Florida 150,000 names of "convicted felons" so they could be disenfranchised a few days before the election without being screened for accuracy.

[alaskalonewolf]

...amazingly enough the whole ACORN thing jus' went away. Right?

[secret-steve-crumbles]

...amazingly enough the whole ACORN thing jus' went away. Right?Yes and no. They are total scam artists with a left agenda and they'll be back at it in 2012 with the Dems, however, even with the influence they could have caused, it wouldn't have turned anything around, so, no reason to pull a Gore on it.

[alaskalonewolf]

Dude. No recent submissions in any news post. What gives?
This whole thing is getting shoved the f*** under the rug.