So the GOP is going after ACORN again. Some things never change. If it weren't for all the low-income voters who were purged from the rolls or who went home without voting after standing in line for hours, would George W. Bush even be sitting in the White House? I don't think so. The GOP theory has seemingly always been that if low income folks vote, the GOP loses.
The last time the GOP won, the entire country lost and we are still paying for it.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lost his job for the crime of aiding and abetting the GOP vote scam, but if the Republican Justice Department wasn't trying to stop low income people from voting by accusing somebody of "voter fraud," it wouldn't be an election year.
The Brad Blog:
With prospects looking bleak for the Republicans this November, pulling out the old ACORN lie --- in hopes of scaring people away from the polls, causing chaos in November by challenging voters when they show up to vote, and putting in place baseless grounds to contest close results later on (when the GOP become "sore losers") --- is just about all they have left at this point. . .
Doubtless you've heard the smears by now: that ACORN is committing "voter fraud," on behalf of Obama, in hotly contested swing states. The media have been all too happy to pass that garbage on, without bothering to note that, in fact, the organization attempts to authenticate every registration form its workers submit and by law they must turn in every form to election officials --- even if they find a registration to be fraudulent when they call the phone number submitted on the form, or if the forms are otherwise suspect or incomplete.
They do so, and they flag all questionable registration forms as being suspect before turning them in to officials.
The thanks they receive for registering millions of new voters that nobody else has bothered with, and for notifying officials about questionable registration forms when they turn them in, is that the GOP's democracy-hating propagandists and election officials run to the media shouting, "ACORN is committing voter fraud! They've turned in hundreds and thousands of fraudulent registration forms!"
Of course they have. They have to. By law. But what those GOP despots of democracy always forget to mention is that it was ACORN themselves who notified officials about the potentially fraudulent and/or incomplete forms in the first place!... read more . .
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