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Larry King had a good segment interviewing the head of ACORN tonight.
Posted by klook in General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010)
Fri Oct 10th 2008, 09:11 PM
She pointed out a couple of key facts:
  • ACORN, like anyone else collecting voter registrations, is legally obligated to turn in every application they collect, whether it has a real voter's name on it or Mickey Mouse.

  • ACORN has a team of people that try 5 times to verify every new registration.

  • Every time they can't verify a registration, ACORN flags it and turns it in to the local government elections agency with a group of other flagged registrations.

  • ACORN reports workers who've collected fake voter registratiosn to law enforcement.

  • Thanks to the Republican-backed photo ID requirements in many states now, there is little likelihood that "Tony Romo" could vote in Nevada, for example.

  • Of 1.3 million new voters ACORN has registered for this election, the number of registrations that are erroneous is very small.

  • Although ACORN strongly opposes false voter registrations, the only way that any actual harm could be done is if a voter (or someone posing as a voter) successfully submits a ballot using the fictitious identity on the fraudulent application. How likely is this to happen, really?
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