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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Little Joe who wrote (38194)	10/15/2008 2:57:35 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

The phony registrations are submitted because civic organizations ARE REQUIRED BY LAW to turn in all registrations. By the way exactly why do you think all these phony registrations are being presented to the election officials. I guess that is your idea of good government. From the ACORN site: 2. Any large voter registration operation will have a small percentage of workers who turn in bogus registration forms, Their goal clearly is not to cast a fraudulent vote. It is simply to defraud their employer, ACORN, by getting a paycheck without earning it. ACORN is the victim of this fraud – not the perpetrator. 3. In nearly every case that has been reported , it was ACORN that discovered the bad forms, and called them to the attention of election authorities, putting the forms in a package that identified them in writing as suspicious, encouraging election officials to investigate, and offering to help with prosecutions. We are required by law to turn in all forms, but instead of just turning them in and figuring that it is the responsibility of the board of elections to figure out which are valid, we spend millions of dollars verifying that forms are valid, and then separate out those that are suspicious. acorn.org[tt_news]=22383&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12340&cHash=ef14f35f55

To: Little Joe who wrote (38194)	10/15/2008 2:58:25 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

That's a darn good question. We saw a lot of voter fraud in Florida allegedly committed by Republican aligned groups in 2000 and then again in 2004. So this stuff happens and we need to clamp down on it. But the relevant issue is that Obama has nothing to do with this and it is simply a Republican attempt at smearing him to say that he is associated with these fraud attempts.