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To: ManyMoose who wrote (91050)	10/21/2008 12:06:06 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541138

Peoples who want to register and vote can do so without such coercion. Do you have any evidence, MM, that ACORN employs coercion to get prospective voters to register? Don't give me the stock answer that it was their employee's abuse, not theirs. Acorn is responsible for the actions of its employees. Yes, and they claim they are, most often the agency that turns in the registration mistakes. If you have evidence that is not true, then trot it out. Acorn has no business taking tax payer dollars for their activities. Do you believe that not-for-profits should not engage in voter registration? Or do you believe that only groups that tender to register voters in largely Democratic areas should not engage in voter registration?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (91050)	10/21/2008 12:43:27 PM
From: Paul Kern	Respond to of 541138

Why does Acorn round up fraudulent voter registrations then? There must be some reason for it. 1) Acorn hires people to register voters. 2) Perhaps some of the people they hire could be bitter, unemployed republican operatives whose trust in god and guns isn't working?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (91050)	10/21/2008 12:51:08 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541138

Why does Acorn round up fraudulent voter registrations then? it isn't done on purpose, except by the incompetent or cheating employees. Once the registration is collected, apparently it has to be turned in by law. ACORN itself flags those that it finds suspicious. It hasn't the authority to toss anything out though. Again, something's wrong in the registration system. But there is nothing obviously linking these registrations to an all-out voter's fraud attempt, and certainly there is no direct connection to Obama, other than his community activist works years ago. Again, it's another red herring. Throw enough of those, and hope that the smell lingers enough to drive voters away?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (91050)	10/21/2008 7:12:49 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541138

>>Why does Acorn round up fraudulent voter registrations then? There must be some reason for it. Acorn has no business taking tax payer dollars for their activities. << MM - Just FYI, ACORN does not get any federal funding for its voter registration efforts, nor indeed for most of the various things it does. There is one organization that is an offshoot of ACORN that gets federal funding. It deals with affordable housing for the poor. As for why they round up the fraudulent registrations, they do that because they are legally required to submit every registration application they receive. They flag the ones that they believe are suspect, to ensure that they get extra scrutiny from the Election Boards which actually have the power to disqualify an application. - Allen