Acorn verifies the legitimacy of every registration its canvassers collect. If they can't authenticate the registration, or it's incomplete or questionable in other ways, they flag that form as problematic ("fraudulent", "incomplete", et cetera). They then hand in all registration forms, even the problematic ones, to elections officials, as they are required to do by law. In almost every case where you've heard about fraud by Acorn, it's because Acorn itself notified officials about the fraud that's been perpetrated on them by rogue canvassers. Most officials who run to the media screaming "Acorn is committing fraud" know all of the above but don't bother to share those facts with the media they've run to. None of this is about voter fraud. None of it. Where any fraud has occurred, it's voter registration fraud and has resulted in exactly zero fraudulent votes.
You'll hear that Donald Duck, Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy, Mickey Mouse and (new this year) the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team have all had fraudulent registrations submitted in their names. That's true. And we know this, why? Because Acorn told officials about it when they followed the law and turned in those registrations, flagged as fraudulent.
This Acorn "fraud" business is just a republican media scam. Don't believe me? Ask the Brits.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008/news/politics/bogus_voter_booted_amid_probe_of_acorn_133540.htm
ReplyDeleteThere's at least one fraudulent vote.. so you can go ahead and change the "resulted in exactly zero fraudulent votes" part.
Awesome, I'm glad you found this! We need more detectives in the blogosphere. Let me add to your research. The fraudulent vote you mentioned was cancelled. So we're still at zero (yay democracy!)
ReplyDeleteThe same writer I quoted before responded to this exact incident about the fraudulent vote.: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/oct/16/republicans-acorn-voter-fraud
"Board of Elections already knew about the problem with this voter months ago. They were already given information about his fraudulent registrations as turned in, and flagged by Acorn, as the organization must do, by law, even after confirming in their quality control process that the registration is problematic in some way. Yet, the story hits Murdoch's Post today, days before the election, amidst a flurry of ginned-up Fox News panic about Acorn "voter fraud". Go figure."