ken...."Of course, ACORN does not discriminate in its registration efforts."....
Ken, you are out of lock step with your idol...while he is trying to distance himself from his strong connection to acorn YOU ARE TRYING TO DEFEND THEM
What is the punishment for apostate's in your party. :-)
Registration fraud creates a potential "nightmare" election, McCain campaign says
Posted by Stephen Koff
October 14, 2008 10:29AM
blog.cleveland.com
Washington -- Two prominent former U.S. senators who support John McCain warned this morning of "a potential nightmare" on Election Day and afterward if measures aren't taken to monitor precincts in battleground states including Ohio.
John Danforth, a former senator from Missouri and a former United Nations ambassador, said he is deeply concerned "that this election night and the days that follow will be a rerun of 2000, and even worse than 2000."
It could be worse than the hanging chad controversy and recounts in Florida, and lead to political accusations and court fights that could delay the country from knowing the election's true outcome.
"We believe that this is a potential nightmare," Danforth said this morning at a news conference at the National Press Club. He and Warren Rudman, a former senator from New Hampshire, chair McCain's "Honest and Open Elections Committee."
Rudman described the committee as mostly lawyers who have a lot of experience with elections. The committee proposed that Barack Obama's campaign as well as McCain's identify potentially troublesome precincts in battleground states. Then the campaigns could task volunteers to monitor voting in those precincts.
The controversy goes to revelations in recent days that canvassers for ACORN, a community organizing group, have turned in large numbers of fraudulent voter registration forms, including some where a potential voter has registered multiple times. Others include the names of cartoon characters and the Dallas Cowboys football team. The Republican Party and supporters of McCain say that Obama has several ties to ACORN, whose acronym stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Rudman said that he and Danforth are not accusing ACORN's leaders of wrong-doing. In Cuyahoga County and elsewhere, the problem has been blamed largely on people paid by ACORN to register new voters. With quotas to fill, they have used such tactics as offering money and cigarettes to people who signed multiple registration cards, according to testimony in Cleveland yesterday.
Obama should ask ACORN to stop employing people with criminal records, the pro-McCain former senators said today.
Democrats and some voting officials have said that systems already exist to catch fraudulent voters, including requirements for voters to show identification. But Danforth and Rudman said the systems rely on human judgment.
The fraudulent registrations, they said, create potential for people voting who should not; for people voting more than once, and for election officials to have to spend so much time on this that they cannot prepare properly for an orderly election on Nov. 4. The spread of absentee voting in this election makes the chances of fraudulent voting greater, they said.
"When you swamp a system with many, many fraudulent names, you're creating a problem," Danforth said. |
