McCain offers no proof to back voter-fraud charges (ACORN/Obama are INNOCENT spin-o-thon)

Charlotte Observer ^ | 10/10/08 | Greg Gordon

[Libloather]

McCain offers no proof to back voter-fraud charges
By Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers
Posted: Friday, Oct. 10, 2008

WASHINGTON — John McCain's campaign charged Friday that a liberal-leaning voter registration coalition is seeking to “steal votes” in next month's presidential election and alleged that Democrat Barack Obama has had a long and “intimate” relationship with the group.

Republicans have leveled similar allegations against the coalition known as Acorn in every election since at least 2000, but they have yet to produce proof that the group poses a threat to election integrity.

In its latest attack on Acorn, the McCain campaign provided no evidence that registration shenanigans by Acorn workers were more than an attempt by low-wage canvassers to meet daily quotas by filling out application forms with names from phone books or pro-football lineups.

McCain aides again sought to make a central issue of Acorn — the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now — days after Nevada investigators raided the group's Las Vegas offices to pursue evidence that some of its registration workers had submitted fraudulent applications. However, Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a Democrat who ordered the seizure of Acorn records Tuesday, said he doubts that the phony forms will result in voter fraud. Although the Clark County, Nev., registrar has complained of similar problems for years, Miller said, no one has identified “a single instance of someone posing as somebody else and casting an illegal ballot.”

The Nevada investigation, however, is a source of embarrassment to Acorn.

Acorn officials said they fired a number of workers and turned over evidence to Nevada officials months ago after they discovered phony forms.

[freebilly]

but congress damn sure does not have to fund ACORN

C'mon-- A Dimocrat Congress isn't going to fund ACORN????? Bawney Fwank will look squarely into the camera and deny that any problem exists with ACORN....

[Marauder]

He quotes some guy as saying that no illegal registration has ever been known to result in an illegal vote.

I moved to Alice, Texas as a small child, and what I discovered a decade or so later about the "graveyard" votes for LBJ in 1948 curled my hair.

Obviously, neither the reporter nor the referenced "some guy" has ever read anything about that scam. Had it not been for typical democRat behavior in Jim Wells county in that election, LBJ would never have gotten into the Senate.