A Mighty Hoax From ACORN

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http://www.truthout.org/article/101808A

Michael Winship | A Mighty Hoax From ACORN Grows
Saturday 18 October 2008
by: Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Perspective


Michael Winship sees the ACORN "election fraud" story as one of the urban legends that come up every election cycle. ACORN and election fraud. Hang on. As soon as I can get the alligator that crawled out of my toilet back into the New York City sewers where it belongs, I can turn my attention to this very important topic.

You see, the ACORN "election fraud" story is one of those urban legends, like fake moon landings and alligators in the sewers, and it appears three or four weeks before every recent national election with the regularity of the swallows returning to Capistrano. First, the basics: ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is an activist group working with low- and moderate-income families to, among many other things, register voters. To do this, they hire people to go around signing up the unregistered, killing two birds with one stone - giving employment to people who need it (some with criminal records) and providing the opportunity to vote to members of minority communities whose voices all too often go unheard.

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All of this distracts from several important points. ACORN has registered 1.3 million voters and maintains that in virtually every instance it is ACORN that has reported the incidents of fraud.

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Which raises the ongoing investigation of the Justice Department's firing of those eight US attorneys shortly after President Bush's re-election. It shouldn't be forgotten that despite official explanations, half of them were let go after refusing to prosecute vote fraud charges demanded by Republicans. The attorneys had determined there was little or no evidence of skullduggery; certainly not enough to prosecute.

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1. It IS yet another contrived outrage by the GOP.

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2. Will the corporate media pigs report it has all

been a contrived outrage by the GOP? Will the Acorn story just disappear? Will they just keep repeating the lies?

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3. Funny about the alligator...

I was explaining it to my mom in a similar way, but I used the Amityville Horror as my example.