McCain Crimes: The mask of ACORN! Hiding the real Republican agenda...

If you don't know what ACORN is yet, you haven't been paying attention to the MSM. ACORN is a group that works to register lower-income people to vote. They are coming under flak from right-wing groups who are scared that they could soon lose their red state strongholds. ACORN is being investigated in states including Nevada, Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Mexico, Michigan, Ohio and Missouri, for fraudulent registrations. Read that: SWING STATES.

In Bridgeport Connecticut, they are looking at voter registrations submitted by ACORN because they have found invalid or fraudulent information on 10 out of 8000 registrations submitted. Now I'm not a mathematician, but I believe that's about a 0.1% error rate. Compare that to the maximum error rate allowed by voting machines (0.0002%), and it's pretty high. But I know out of the 10 or so times I've had to re-register after moving, I've messed up once or twice. So that means my personal error rate is at a 0.1% - 0.2%.

In Nevada, ACORNs offices were raided by agents for the Republican led Secretary of State and Attorney General, alleging ACORN was using convicted felons in their voter registration drive, and citing 300 apparently fraudulent registrations out of 80,000. Again, this is a 0.3% error rate.

Why is this issue important? Because it's being used as a smoke screen by the Republican party to legitimize their efforts to disenfranchise voters. They now have a flag to wave when contesting election results. They now have an excuse to hide their true actions behind.

ACORN is being mentioned at Republican rallies, where people are informed about ACORNs actions of "fraudulent" voter registration. Why bring this up at a rally? Well, if you're an underhanded Republican who is actively seeking to disenfranchise voters, even average Republicans will disavow your actions. Average Republican voters are still decent American's, and they won't go for underhanded voter fraud.

But if you give them some reason to support what you're doing, like pretending that the actions of ACORN will "steal" this election from Republicans, and so you MUST support their actions to ensure a "fair" election, you have a better chance of getting away with it. So now they are trying to tie ACORN to Obama so they can more ably protest election results, and put the true outcome of this election in question.

This isn't to say that ACORN is free from blame. They need to reevaluate their techniques for gathering registrations. Some former employees have revealed that they had fraudulently filled out apps in order to meet their quota and not be put on probation or let go. But in response to the Nevada raid, "ACORN officials said they were stunned by the search because they had unilaterally identified and flagged suspicious voter registration cards to the county elections board starting in July and had been cooperating with authorities to cull bad information and fire workers who collected that information, said Brian Mellor, senior counsel for Project Vote."

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