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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (426076)	10/14/2008 3:35:38 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572678

"CJ, personally I don't think ACORN really cares if the registrations are fraudulent or not." Why shouldn't they? What use are fraudulent registrations to them?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (426076)	10/14/2008 4:03:21 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572678

>>> Saying that it's just 1% or even 0.1% that is fraudulent doesn't fly with me, since that sounds a lot like the logic of a Wal-mart shoplifter. Exactly.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (426076)	10/14/2008 4:59:53 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572678

>CJ, personally I don't think ACORN really cares if the registrations are fraudulent or not. Really? Then why do they flag the ones that they think might be fraudulent before handing them in? Understand that in most states, they can't legally take the fraudulent ones out... >There are reasons why voter registration fraud is a felony, not a misdemeanor. It undermines the whole democratic process. Right. So the people that commit it can get charged with a felony. But ACORN is legally not allowed to be the arbiter of that, other than to dismiss people that they know are committing it. And there's not evidence that they don't. And even if they didn't, what's the endgame here? -Z