Posted on 10/16/2008 11:43:16 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle
Charges of Voter Fraud Are Out of Proportion to Reality, They Say
Charges of potential vote fraud volleyed by Republicans, including Sen. John McCain himself, are out of proportion to reality, according to election experts.
During Wednesday's final presidential debate before the November election, Sen. John McCain said Sen. Barack Obama is tied to ACORN, a nonprofit group that McCain said "is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy." But election experts say McCain's charges of potential vote fraud are overblown. Collapse
The concerns – raised by the Republican National Committee in daily conference calls with reporters, as well as by McCain himself in Wednesday's debate – focus on the nonprofit group ACORN, whose nationwide voter registration efforts have garnered apparently fraudulent registration cards, some for fictional characters like "Mickey Mouse."
ACORN, whose registration efforts generally target poor neighborhoods, "is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy," McCain claimed last night, citing Sen. Barack Obama's ties to the group.
Obama reportedly worked with ACORN when he ran a Chicago-area voter registration drive shortly after graduating from law school, and conducted leadership training with the group. During the primaries, Obama's campaign paid an ACORN-affiliated group $800,000 for get-out-the-vote efforts, which reportedly did not include voter registration. The group's political arm has endorsed Obama's candidacy.
But McCain's voter fraud worries – about ACORN or anyone else – are unsupported by the facts, said experts on election fraud, who recall similar concerns being raised in several previous concerns being raised in several previous elections, despite a near-total absence of cases.
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What the heck is a lot of election fraud among marxists and fascists?
We are watching an attempt at a coup. But the MSM will tell us otherwise.
In light if this lack of concern about election fraud, how many tens of thousands of DNC lawyers are being prepared to go to Ohio and Florida and other key states to challenge military absentee ballots, and votes in GOP-heavy districts?
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