Posted on 10/18/2008 2:29:20 PM PDT by FocusNexus
To end the many obstacles Southern states put up before African-American voters as late as the 1960s, Congress worked for decades to make voting much easier. These efforts had a hugely positive effect - until the 1993 "motor voter" law. This measure and some related laws made registration so easy - and so difficult to verify because of a lack of resources and time - that they created nothing less than a structural weakness in American democracy.
This election year, we're seeing a determined, well-funded effort to exploit this weakness, led by ACORN - the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Using corporate, partisan and taxpayer grants, the nonprofit group has spent $35 million this year to register 1.3 million people in 21 states. But it's highly likely that hundreds of thousands of these registrations are bogus.
Even if a tiny fraction of these fake voters actually fill out a ballot, they have the potential to tip the presidential vote in battleground states - such as Ohio. Or Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina or Wisconsin - all swing states where ACORN has been active.
So, please, spare us the "social justice" rhetoric. What ACORN has done isn't noble. It's reprehensible. We hope that the FBI's investigation into the group is vigorous and thorough.
(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...
If he wins by means of this vote fraud, Obama will never be accepted by the American people as President.
Good to see an editorial with some common sense on this issue. The editorial refers to ACORN’s activity as “exploiting the system,” but I think criminal is a better descriptor. As an aside, if you substituted ACORN with NRA in this editorial or any other article about their activities, imagine what the nationwide outrage would be.
At the very least.
Only to those people who do not engage in fraudulent conduct themselves. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Jesse Jackson or the New York Times to agree the election was fradulent.
Jack
I remember my parents not being able to vote in Arkansas in the 60’s because they couldn’t afford the poll tax. So those “obstacles” stood in the way of poor white folks, too. I hate to say this, but I’m not sure it was such a bad thing. My parents voted straight democrat their whole lives.
But nobody will be able to actually PROVE that he won because of voter fraud.
I personally believe that the Democrats committed MAJOR voter fraud in 2000, that’s why they were so sure Gore would win. But more Bush voters turned out, than the Democrats expected, so Bush got elected. That’s the real reason the Dems feel the election was stolen from them - because REAL voters counteracted the Dem fraudulent votes.
They want to make sure THAT doesn’t happen again, so they are trying to demorilize Republican voters to stay home or vote third party, and are committing unprecedented voter fraud.
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If Obama wins, then I am prepared for the inevitable civil war.
I am fairly certain that there are Americans out there who would prefer to fight than live under totalitarian Communism.
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If Obama wins, ACORN will run our elections. Congress will make certain ACORN and other radical, leftwing thugs are well funded. Obama and Pelosi will spread plenty of wealth their way.
“social justice” is just another word for communism!
If Hussein wins it will be Civil War part II.
The democrat controlled Congress has already insured ACORN’s funding, by including in the summer housing bill a $420 per home (that’s with every home loan written in America, for those in Rio Linda) loan provision that funnels the money to ACORN subsidiaries.
The “weakness” in ANY “democracy” is granting the vote to the ignorant, nonproductive, welfare leaches, illegal aliens or criminals.
America - has done all the above.
John Adams was right - but he was ignored.
BTTT
I know, and that was the new and improved bill that our Republican leaders were telling us didn’t include ACORN funding.
No, you’re mistaken. I’m referring to a bill that was passed in August. The ‘bailout’ bill had the extra funding for ACORN removed. But that was a nice try to smear the Republicans.
ACORN is a criminal enterprise founded by SDS types who wanted to pursue their revolution. These scumbags need to be prosecuted under RICO statutes and Obambi’s role as a close and warm ALLY and lawyer and TRAINER for these leftists has to be broadcast in more attack ads and media appearances, etc.
Obama gave workshops on “power” to ACORN trainees for years, according to a key ACORN leader. We need to demand to know the content of Obama’s advice to fellow radicals about power — how to seek it, how to seize it, Saul Alinsky style.
Alinsky should become a household name in the next 2 weeks because he wrote the “bible” of radical organizing for community organizer and radical “philanthropist” Barack Obama to utilize in Chicago and now nationally.
Yup, add to that anyone who immigrated here from a communist country and remembers the vile degradation and brutal oppression they suffered. If bambi wins his reign won't last long.
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