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Oh, they are so innocent, they are required to turn in all registration cards -- oh really? This organization has been caught so many times doing fraudulent voting registrations that it is extremely stupid to believe they are telling the truth.

I believe 99% of the fraudulent registrations have not been detected, and our whole election process is so compromised we cannot be sure Obama has not already stolen the Presidency.

All of this will end up being just more proof that Repuglicans hate democracy.

Typical of the news media only reporting half the story to make news worthy, and typical of dim minded individuals like the poster above me that consumes everything Conservative groups falsely spew out.

Get a clue.
The organization must submit registrations it receives even when it expects they may be fraudulent. If they were shredding or pulling them, they'd be commiting voter fraud of destroying registrations that hadn't been disproved.

As to who is doing this - seems to me Republicans need look only as far as their good friend and colleague Karl Rove. This is such a Rovian trick, an amazing version of an October surprise. I bet he and his buddies are just grinning with glee thinking they've pulled it over on the American public one more time. Meanhile, if you're going to link Obama's involvement to ACORN, you need to also include those dangerous League of Women Voters and the Justice Department people.

Of course, the beauty of all these gymnastics is that it also keeps your eyes off the 401K so they can rob that blind and start on your health insurance and social security next. Have you looked to see how much money we've lost? Are you seriously interested in putting John McCain, who's been all over the map, and Sarah Palin, not what you'd call a real brain, in charge of this crisis?

I truly believe we have illegal aliens voting in our elections, why not they get into everything else unrestrained. Our Government officials just ignore breaking the law. We need to push for a voter ID, we need to show we are citizens from registering to voting.

What slime. Of course those doing the lying and cheating are all votes FOR Obama. Guess that's the sure fire way to guarantee he gets elected. To fake 5,000+ votes for. Makes me sick the way the media and everyone just lets him slide thru as if they are afraid to confront the hypocricy. Biden, who I actually like, and his blunders, too. Obama thinks he can get away with constantly slamming and bad-mouthing McCain and then whine that McCain is using negative campaigning. What a creep. Cannot understand how so many can be so blind. Oh well, time will tell the truth and the real man. I'm certain of that! I just hope many come to their senses or some actual truth about Obama comes out before it's too late.

lisa digg,

did you even make it past the 3rd grade ?

in this country, it is actually permitted to
read things through more than once.

Obama has won

as The Republicans have done nothing good for our country in the last 8 years.
The people are not that stupid.

It would truly be a terrible moment in our nation's history if McCain and Palin were to be elected on their platform of hate and lies. There was a time I had some respect for McCain. But he has completely lost my respect. In fact I must have been mistaken all along to think that he had any honor. If he becomes president I will still have no respect for him. But even worse if he becomes president it will show the world that the days of an inspiring America are over. If he becomes president the world will see that America is ruled by hate, fear and bigotry and that every other country had better be afraid because a hate filled, angry old man and his ill-informed religious fundamentalist vp are in charge and they are erratic and filled with negativity. In fact negativity is their platform.

I find it frustrating that mainstream media only tells part of the story - and it takes real digging and presistence to get all of what happened. Without the whole story, making an informed decision is impossible. And, from my view, anyone reading the whole story and making an informed decision could only come to one conclusion - McCain/Palin is 4 more years of Bush, Obama/Biden speak to the future with strength, clarity and possibility.

Obama/Biden - 2008!!!!

Arthur, you could easily be talking about the 2000 and 2004 elections. These, indeed, were stolen by voter fraud.

Obama is not the agent of change. Obama is typical Chicago-style corruption, with many corrupt friends and many anti-American allies.

The problem with ACORN is not Voter Fraud, or even Registration Fraud... it's their hiring practices.
None of these fake people, etc, are going to vote.
The shame of all this propaganda, is that the real problem, Election Fraud, Caging, etc, is never discussed. If this is a close election, it's still very possible that McCain will win, based on Election Fraud (machine *malfunction,* lack of machines, no paper trail, etc).
We've seen it in the past two Pres elections.

I forgot to mention one important thing... if McCain does win, with the help of Election Fraud, there is already built into the election narrative, all the talk of the *Bradley Effect.*
that people tell the Polls they'll vote for Obama, but in the end won't vote for a Black man.
So, again, the excuse is already out there.

they only have to turn in all of the bogas forms acorn only flaged 5 out of thosands. in in and they turn up in 8 more states they need to lose there goverment funding and have the fbi investigate. who is behind it and follow the paper trail. is this the change obama speaks of he cant win unless they fill the ballet boxes with votes from dead people and fake documented workers his name comes up its with some extreemist american haters who are themselves bigots it works both ways you dont have to be white to be a bigot

A lot of folks show the depth of their witless behavior by their inane comments here. Registeration fraud, which is what ACORN is being alleged to be doing, is completely different from voter fraud. When a voter goes to vote, he/she is required to show identification, which easily cancels virtually all registeration fraud. Additionally, orginizations like ACORN, must turn in ALL registeration forms, even those they deem suspicious or inefectual - thats the LAW. So just because there is news that ACORN is turning in suspecious registeration forms does not mean they are breaking the law. It has to be proven legally that they were willfully submitting registeration forms in order to commit registeration fraud. There are mutiple gates and checks built into to the system to protect against voter fraud. That doesn't mean its not going to happen, but its much harder to commit than registeration fraud.

Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?

We wont.

Why does someone bring at the end of the day bring 5000 voter registration into the registration office?
Maybe this was all planted by someone of the GOP? Anyway this needs to be investigated!!!

ACORN's response:

Fact: ACORN has implemented the most sophisticated quality-control system in the voter engagement field, but in almost every state we are required to turn in ALL completed applications, even the ones we know to be problematic.

Fact: ACORN flags incomplete, problem, or suspicious cards when we turn them in, but these warnings are often ignored by election officials. Often these same officials then come back weeks or months later and accuse us of deliberately turning in phony cards.

Fact: Our canvassers are paid by the hour, not by the card, so there is NO incentive for them to falsify cards. ACORN has a zero-tolerance policy for deliberately falsifying registrations, and in the relatively rare cases where our internal quality controls have identified this happening we have fired the workers involved and turned them in to election officials and law-enforcement.

Fact: No charges have ever been brought against ACORN itself. Convictions against individual former ACORN workers have been accomplished with our full cooperation, using the evidence obtained through our quality control and verification processes.

Fact: Voter fraud by individuals is extremely rare, and incredibly difficult. There has never been a single proven case of anyone, anywhere, casting an illegal vote as a result of a phony voter registration. Even if someone wanted to influence the election this way, it would not work.

Fact: Most election officials have recognized ACORN's good work and praised our quality control systems. Even in the cities where election officials have complained about ACORN, the applications in question represent less than 1% of the thousands and thousands of registrations ACORN has collected.

Fact: Our accusers not only fail to provide any evidence, they fail to suggest a motive: there is virtually no chance anyone would be able to vote fraudulently, so there is no reason to deliberately submit phony registrations. ACORN is committed to ensuring that the greatest possible numbers of people are registered and allowed to vote, so there is also NO incentive to "disrupt the system" with phony cards.

Fact: Similar accusations were made, and attacks launched, against ACORN and other voter registration organizations in 2004 and 2006. These attacks were not only groundless, they have since been exposed as part of the U.S. Attorneygate scandal and revealed to be part of a systematic partisan agenda of voter suppression.