MODUS OPERANDI Several states have pre-pledged their 2008 electorals. New Jersey, New York, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Connecticut have embedded into law a total of 187 pre-pledged electorals. Electors by law will vote for whomever receives the most popular vote. Also means that, nationally, only 83 more electorals are needed for Obama to win.
ACORN's activities also facilitate ID theft which their chosen candidates use in campaign finance fraud to circumvent FEC laws.
Not to mention ID theft re ACORN's involvement in the subprime mess.
MICHELE MALKIN EXCERPT House Republicans removed one pro-ACORN measure from the $700 Billion rescue bill - torpedoeing a provision devoting 20 percent of all profits from the bailout to a housing slush fund - which would've funneled money to ACORN and similar groups. In its place, however, ACORN's favorite lawmakers - led by Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.) - got ACORN-championed "foreclosure-mitigation" provisions into the rescue bill .....During the floor debate on Friday, Reps. Frank and Waters assured Democratic colleagues that they had personally lobbied Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson on these measures and would press him to consent to "do the kind of loan modifications we've been urging." Waters exulted: "We're in charge! . . . We own them now." If the banks don't write down enough loan principal to keep Rep. Frank happy, he threatens hearings and new legislation......with the backing of ACORN. ......... ACORN President Maude Hurd warns that her "members plan to hold Secretary Paulson accountable and ensure he uses this authority to make streamlined loan modifications a priority for struggling American families."
