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To: Rambi who wrote (91616)	10/23/2008 8:31:17 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 541346

Hi Rambi... There certainly are a lot of unanswered questions regarding ACORN. I read the other day somewhere.......and don't remember the exact figure, or where.........that ACORN has millions and millions of dollars in its budget. Being a small business woman, I'm particularly familiar with budgets, and I must say that who ever is running ACORN is doing a poor job of overseeing the operation. It is natural for people to be sceptical of an organization with so many problems.....particularly considering it is in the business of registering voters. I don't think it a left or right issue. I think it's an all American issue. Americans want to be assured their vote is protected and that voting in America is safe, without some of the shenanigans we've seen ACORN pull taking place.

To: Rambi who wrote (91616)	10/23/2008 11:29:26 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541346

It's not just ACORN- if you pay people by the head for the people they register, there will be false registrations. The people who do this don't care about the election- they are poor and they want the money: Voters say they were duped into registering as Republicans Los Angeles Times, 10/18/08 Dozens of newly minted Republican voters say they were duped into joining the party by a GOP contractor with a trail of fraud complaints stretching across the country. It is a bait-and-switch scheme familiar to election experts. The firm hired by the California Republican Party -- a small company called Young Political Majors, or YPM, which operates in several states -- has been accused of using the tactic across the country. GOP registration firm leader arrested for voter fraud Sacramento Bee, 10/20/08 The owner of a firm hired by the California Republican Party to register thousands of voters this year was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly registering himself to vote at a home in California where he does not live…. Mark Jacoby owns the voter registration firm Young Political Majors, or YPM, which was the subject of a story in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday, which reported the group was duping voters into re-registering as Republicans…. Jacoby and the party denied any wrongdoing. The state Republican Party pays the firm $7 to $12 for each new party registrant it signs up.