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Barack Obama and the Democrats are stealing the election. Massive voter fraud is being carried out, even as we speak, by their henchmen, known by the innocuous sounding Association for Community Organisations for Reform Now, or Acorn. Clever bastards.
The only problem? Despite the screaming wall-to-wall coverage of “Democratic voter fraud in 11 swing states” as seen on Fox News and even the once-respectable CNN, none of it’s true. None of it.
In just the last week, we’ve had a phoney stunt raid in swing state Nevada (where Acorn had been cooperating with officials for months, concerning problem canvassers they’d long ago fired); a Republican election official in swing state Missouri tell Fox News that she’s being beseiged with fraudulent registration forms from Acorn (in a county where they’ve not done any registration work since August); a Republican sheriff in swing state Ohio, who, the very next day, suddenly requested the names and addresses of hundreds of early voters (with evidence of exactly zero wrong doing, but lots of Democratic-leaning college student in the particular county, and John McCain’s state campaign chair as a partner in the investigation); and a screaming front page headline in Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post about a guy who claims he was somehow tricked by Acorn into registering 72 times (but read the article closely to note he says he registered at the same address each time, which, even if true, would allow him – you guessed it – precisely one legal vote.)
It’s an old Republican scam, but it’s never been carried out with more zeal than this year. The Republicans have been putting so much time, money and resources into the propaganda leading up to this over the last four years, we should have expected no less.
As luck would have it, the Democrats have a man who, as an attorney years ago, actually had the temerity to join the US department of justice in representing Acorn in a successful lawsuit, forcing the state of Illinois to follow the law by allowing citizens to register to vote at the department of motor vehicles. What a scoundrel.
That, of course, was before the department of justice, under George Bush’s corrupt command, would itself become politicised by the very Republicans so desperate to keep low-income voters from voting, that they were willing to fire their own US attorneys for failing to bring phoney charges of voter fraud in key swing states like Nevada and Missouri.
So what are the crimes that have caused all the Sturm und Drang on US television and talk radio, and in several otherwise respectable newspapers and even by the McCain campaign itself?
The only actual crime here is that Acorn managed to register some 1.3m low-income (read: Democratic-leaning) voters over the past two years. The rest is, pretty much, just made up.
But in the bloody and desperate trenches of the Republican war on democracy, that’s more than enough to kick in a last minute surge of lies that may – with the help of a compliant and lazy corporate US media – wreak enough havoc, scare enough voters, confuse enough people and plant enough seeds to call an Obama victory into doubt on November 4.
If you can’t win it, steal it. If you can’t steal it, claim the other guy stole it. If you can’t claim the other guy stole it (yet), say they’re about to and then kick up smoke that maybe someone will believe you. (Heckuva job, CNN.)
Here are the facts. 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.
No offense but imho the Guardian is not a credible source. Anyway its voter registration fraud not voter fraud. Plus I’m pretty sure it was a Democrat that ordered the raid in NV.
It’s more likely than not its just young people trying to pad their registration numbers to get paid. ACORN shouldn’t count bogus registrations towards their quota. But I would imagine ACORN is more disorganized than ruthlessly dishonest. But who knows as they aren’t independents.
I always take what the media says with a grain of salt. More importantly it’s what they don’t say that often reveals the truth. When the timeline doesn’t add up there is often more to it than meets the eye.
A perfect example is the bashing of Barney Frank and CRA when it turns out that our old friend Leach had his hand in whole banking deregulation mess.
Google – Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
Financial Services Modernization ActEven still they stuck the UIGEA in the Port Security Act (OCT 2006) when Bush and several members of Congress are on record warning of the credit-crisis prior to the Port Security Act and could have easily had banking regulations slipped in to it.
My point is that if you are concerned about voter fraud then take care of THAT issue and not blame ACORN.
The folks on tv saying that they registered multiple times should be jailed not glorified.
Why are we having these type of groups doing this anyway?
Funny how the GOP is talking about how many folks THEY have blocked from actually registering once.
Fox is deplorable and a propoganda machine on the scale of what we see in Communist China, North Korea or the former Soviet Union. They are unabashedly a right wing extremist puppet and to call themselves “news” is a total affront on what the term means.
CNN was great until they were bought by Viacom. They gradually morphed into a semi Fox in terms of content and propoganda. Not nearly as straight forward and blatant as Fox but more insidious in a way because they are a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
The third component of the Triangle of Evil is Clear Channel Communications which under the guise of “de-regulation” has gobbled up most of the radio stations in every major market. Thats why we end up with th 24 hours a day of right wing extremist and special interest brainwashing that’s going on. How come almost ALL radio commentators with the exception PBR are extreme right wing douche bags? Clear Channel.
It was true when independent Ross Perot coined the term and it’s even more true now. The Republicans have adopted a deplorable practice of charecter assasination, gunboat lies and dirty tricks that is without precedent. I have no idea how the extremists took over that party, but its high time the GOP cleaned house and went back to their founding beliefs. I think after this election they will have to do so. So if you think you are Republican send a message to your party that you are sick and tired of the shit throwing, propoganda, lies, pork barrel spending, and complete control by special interest groups. They have nearly bankrupted this country, enough is enough.
lol, but they are admiting themselves they have fruad in registrations, Mikey mouse, the starting lineup of the cowboys. Oh and now they are catching people in Ohio voting on fradulent registrations from ACORN,, but hey its al made up. From the NY Post : http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008/news/politics/bogus_voter_booted_amid_probe_of_acorn_133540.htm
See the quote from Obama yesterday in Ohio? When asked by a plummer if his taxes would go up under Obama, Obama responded with this. –> http://www.breitbart.tv/html/195153.html
Pure Socialist.. but hey thats made up too..
Oh, reports of groups going into old folks homes and “assisting” them into voting Obama on absentee as well.. Hope to get a link for that as well before long.
30,000 Convicted felons registered in Florida, many voted illegally in the last election 2/1 for Democrats.
Obama telling people in Ohio at his rally to go vote TODAY as you can in Ohio, do not wait as you may change your mind in 3 weeks?
Soon there will be a line for just plain buying your votes.
Here is a link to the Nursing home voter “assistance” program by the Democrats — > http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/30930849.html
Hey there Chips! Good to see you back dude! I thought you were mad at me and gave up the fight!
LOL@Professor 180869 wrote:
Fox is deplorable and a propoganda machine on the scale of what we see in Communist China, North Korea or the former Soviet Union. They are unabashedly a right wing extremist puppet and to call themselves “news” is a total affront on what the term means.
Fox is on some BS because all morning they talked about ACORN, then they said that ACORN was holding a news conference. They covered less than FIVE minutes of it so I don’t know what was said!
Fair and Balanced? Yea right. LOL
No reason to doubt the Guardian Report. it’s not up to deputy registrars (which is what acorn uses for their registration drive), to decide which applications to turn in and which to toss out, you have to turn them all in. It is the country/city/town clerk to determine their validity.
BTW if Acorn registrars are so horrible/criminal that these various clerks are “exposing” them to the media, why don’t they just revoke the deputy registrars that are doing this? I don’t seen any story about how these various Republican politicians are tossing out bad registrars and why not if it’s so outrageous.
I’ll believe the guardian’s explaination, since it actually makes sense and having been a deputy registrar, i know the deputy can’t refuse to register people, can’t dispose of “bad” registrations, etc.
Good (& humorous) ACORN summary from Gawker (http://gawker.com/5063157/wait-whats-up-with-acorn)
Wait, What’s Up With ACORN?
Nationally, Barack Obama is between 5 and 10 points ahead in the polls. In the states defined by Rasmussen as battlegrounds, Obama ranges from a tie in North Carolina (North Carolina!) to slight leads in all the rest of them. Also Bush announced the nationalization of the banks or something today, prompting the Dow to jump in early trading. So Matt Drudge, who controls your news with an iron opera glove, is leading today with the news that ACORN registered Mickey Mouse to vote. Ha ha ha. Honestly, what the hell’s the deal with the ACORN story and why are right-wingers already clinging to it like guns and religion? Sigh. We’ll try to explain.What is ACORN??
An evil group that exists to organize poor people into a violent militia and overthrow the government via “voting.” Or basically a lobbying group for low- and middle-income families, either one.
Oh no, lobbyists!
Right? ACORN is in some respects a lobbying group like, say, the oil or pharmaceutical lobbies. Except they represent poor people instead of profitable corporations so they’re a much less successful lobbying group.
What do they do?
They started as a radical group dedicated to getting welfare recipients and underemployed non-welfare recipients together to demand socialist things like free lunches for kids and emergency room care. Now they lobby Democrats for terrorist things like raising the minimum wage and forcing the government to subsidize affordable housing. Also they organize voter registration drives.
But what about all these crimes they’re committing??
ACORN pays local losers in Florida $8 an hour to gather 20 voter registrations a day. So some of these losers are lazy, like all employees, and just make up the registrations. ACORN does try to find these made-up registrations and fire the employees who submit them, but, you know, sometimes they miss a couple. Also the law seems to say that ACORN has to submit all the registrations they gather no matter what, and even though the law is a little bit vague, they’re still trying to follow it.
Why do Republicans need to attack and delegitimize a damn voter registration drive??
Because a certain amount of passive voter suppression is built in to the Republican campaign strategy. If all the disenfranchised and disenchanted voters were organized and registered and informed, we’d probably be a crazy socialist 10-party country like Italy or something. The GOP engages in active voter suppression—voter ID laws and legal challenges—and the more passive kind built into the democratic process, like engendering cynicism about the democratic process.
Obviously convincing the guys who disagree with you to not vote is part of any party’s campaign strategy, but the GOP’s by necessity targets poor people and minorities, and the vast history of suppressing the votes of poor people and minorities is way grosser than any history of disenfranchising white protestants. To us! Maybe you have some totally oppressed landed gentry in your family tree so you may feel differently.
Quite honestly the very heart of the utter bullshitness of this anti-ACORN campaign can be found in one incredibly telling quote from a spokesman for the RNC: “Cairncross accused ACORN of engaging in a ‘systematic effort to undermine the election process’ through its voter-registration drives.” Do you see the problem with that statement?
And basically there is a CERTAIN CLASS of Republican voter that does not think that the poors, the Blacks, the homelesses, and so on honestly really deserve the same power to choose our rulers as a guy who’s worked his whole life to get where he is. The politics of resentment are the last, most powerful weapon the McCain campaign has left this cycle. The details of the charges don’t matter, actual proof of fraud doesn’t matter, any evidence whatsoever of voter fraud being a real problem with a measurable effect on elections certainly doesn’t matter, because the “fraud” is just that, you know, no-good hoodlum welfare recipients are being handed voter registration forms, and one type of person sees that as the point of democracy and the other type sees it as an utter perversion of democracy.
Didn’t McCain used to totally be in the tank for ACORN?
Well Republicans have been bitching about ACORN and voter fraud for years now, but McCain definitely didn’t used to be one of those Republicans. In 2006 McCain did give a keynote address, about immigration rights, at a rally co-sponsored by ACORN.
Can you maybe use a little more false equivalence to explain this in a way I understand?
Sure. ACORN’s voter registration drives are to conservatives what Diebold voting machines are the liberals. The possibility of abuse is present and clear, but no one’s yet convincingly proved that any abuse has occurred.
OK so what’s up with everyone suddenly talking about ACORN?
As we said, nuttier conservatives have been on the ACORN-bashing bandwagon for years now. That it’s finally trickled up to Drudge and Fox means they’re scared they’re losing the election and they need to preemptively delegitimize Obama.
What are my talking points for when crazy relatives argue that ACORN stole the election?
What we’re dealing with so far is minor voter registration fraud. The questionable registrations number in the double digits in most states, and most of them have been flagged and caught by either ACORN themselves or election officials. More importantly, the election can’t be stolen if it hasn’t happened yet, and voter registration fraud does not explain in any way a double digit lead for a candidate in national tracking polls. Like, wtf, how are you making this argument, are you slow? ACORN registering Mickey Mouse is why Barack Obama is up 12 in Pennsylvania? Ok, sure, whatever you say.
@Professor 180869 wrote:
Fox is deplorable and a propoganda machine on the scale of what we see in Communist China, North Korea or the former Soviet Union. They are unabashedly a right wing extremist puppet and to call themselves “news” is a total affront on what the term means.
CNN was great until they were bought by Viacom. They gradually morphed into a semi Fox in terms of content and propoganda. Not nearly as straight forward and blatant as Fox but more insidious in a way because they are a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
The third component of the Triangle of Evil is Clear Channel Communications which under the guise of “de-regulation” has gobbled up most of the radio stations in every major market. Thats why we end up with th 24 hours a day of right wing extremist and special interest brainwashing that’s going on. How come almost ALL radio commentators with the exception PBR are extreme right wing douche bags? Clear Channel.
It was true when independent Ross Perot coined the term and it’s even more true now. The Republicans have adopted a deplorable practice of charecter assasination, gunboat lies and dirty tricks that is without precedent. I have no idea how the extremists took over that party, but its high time the GOP cleaned house and went back to their founding beliefs. I think after this election they will have to do so. So if you think you are Republican send a message to your party that you are sick and tired of the shit throwing, propoganda, lies, pork barrel spending, and complete control by special interest groups. They have nearly bankrupted this country, enough is enough.
I couldn’t agree more .
I hate to generalize but i’ve sure found this tends to the be the case
Crime/Punishment
Republicans want to kill anyone who is convicted of serious/violent crime. They’d rather execute innocent people who may be wrongly convicted but had received due process, than let 1 guilty person live.Democrats would rather commute a death sentence or not allow capital punishment than risk that a single innocent person is executed.
Voting.
The Republicans spend lots of efforts trying to prevent democratic voters from voting over this horrific fraud they see everywhere. They are against early voting, absentee voting for anyone and anything resembling same day registration. Republicans go to court to prevent people who show up during legal voting hours from voting, if they can’t be accomodated before the scheduled “end of voting”. Republicans (and they’ve said it for years) say the right to vote doesn’t include having the practical ability to vote. So republican secratary of states, pull voting machines from democratic precincts, send them to republican areas just to hurt the democratic vote (Ohio in 2004)Democrats want anyone who has the right to vote to vote. They believe people who got in line before the end of the voting period should still get to vote. Democrats have been accused of having dead people vote and actively bringing fraudulent voters to vote in multiple spots.
Whichever side you think is worse, “Democratic fraud”are always trying to get more votes for their side, while “Republican Harassment” seems entirely focused on preventing their enemies from voting.
@allfreechips 180876 wrote:
Here is a link to the Nursing home voter “assistance” program by the Democrats — > http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/30930849.html
LOL
Hey, let me play a racism card
Proof that black people are voting for Obama just because he’s black…Now that’s racist !
http://www.bpmdeejays.com/upload/hs_sal_in_Harlem_100108.mp3
Courtesy of Howard Stern
