The Truth About ACORN's Voter Registration Drive

[IndianaGreen]

The Truth About ACORN's Voter Registration Drive

by Bertha Lewis and Steve Kest


Fact: Our canvassers are paid by the hour, not by the card, so there is NO incentive for them to falsify cards. ACORN has a zero-tolerance policy for deliberately falsifying registrations, and in the relatively rare cases where our internal quality controls have identified this happening we have fired the workers involved and turned them in to election officials and law-enforcement.

Fact: No charges have ever been brought against ACORN itself. Convictions against individual former ACORN workers have been accomplished with our full cooperation, using the evidence obtained through our quality control and verification processes.

Fact: Voter fraud by individuals is extremely rare, and incredibly difficult. There has never been a single proven case of anyone, anywhere, casting an illegal vote as a result of a phony voter registration. Even if someone wanted to influence the election this way, it would not work.

Fact: Most election officials have recognized ACORN's good work and praised our quality control systems. Even in the cities where election officials have complained about ACORN, the applications in question represent less than 1% of the thousands and thousands of registrations ACORN has collected.

Fact: Our accusers not only fail to provide any evidence, they fail to suggest a motive: there is virtually no chance anyone would be able to vote fraudulently, so there is no reason to deliberately submit phony registrations. ACORN is committed to ensuring that the greatest possible numbers of people are registered and allowed to vote, so there is also NO incentive to "disrupt the system" with phony cards.

Fact: Similar accusations were made, and attacks launched, against ACORN and other voter registration organizations in 2004 and 2006. These attacks were not only groundless, they have since been exposed as part of the U.S. Attorneygate scandal and revealed to be part of a systematic partisan agenda of voter suppression.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/10

[bluestateguy]

1. I would like to know if they are actually following up on all these people that they registered

That's what the Obama campaign does. If you just register someone and then walk away then most of those people will not bother to vote. If you don't follow up the return on your investment will be very low.

[mrcheerful]

2. Facts? You dare give Facts?

Republicon supporters don't need facts for christs sake they know truth when Rush says its the truth facts be damned. Besides who else can they blame for McCains sorry joke of a run? McCain the war hero? He is just being sunk by the media, nothing they print can be trusted. Unless its about Obama ties with terrorists and his muslum conections that is then the liberal media is right on the truth.