Even ACORN is clean – it's been the victim of lazy employees who made up lots of names on registration forms. ACORN recognized that the forms were bogus, and fired those employees, and followed the law with the bogus forms: in some states they were required to turn in all forms (to prevent a registration organization from tossing forms if it thought someone would vote against its agenda), so they turned them in with notes marking them as presumed bogus, and I suppose just threw them away in states where they're not required to turn in all forms.
The ACORN thing was not, is not, and will not be voting fraud. It's registration fraud – but no one will ever vote those phony registrations.
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Re: We always disagree politically but anyway...
Date: 2008-10-23 05:59 am (UTC)Even ACORN is clean – it's been the victim of lazy employees who made up lots of names on registration forms. ACORN recognized that the forms were bogus, and fired those employees, and followed the law with the bogus forms: in some states they were required to turn in all forms (to prevent a registration organization from tossing forms if it thought someone would vote against its agenda), so they turned them in with notes marking them as presumed bogus, and I suppose just threw them away in states where they're not required to turn in all forms.
The ACORN thing was not, is not, and will not be voting fraud. It's registration fraud – but no one will ever vote those phony registrations.