The Nuts at ACORN and the Voter Suppression

The situation here is not as it seems. The great republican candidate, Senator McCain, claims Senator Obama, the democratic candidate, has huge ties with the ACORN organization. McCain claims that ACORN has committed one of the largest voting flaws in history. which was by falsifying votes, giving one person an advantage. Ridiculous. The only thing that actually happened was that ACORN employees sent in fake registration forms of their own handiwork in order to keep up with ACORN's standards. Acorns standards, is somewhere around every employee has to register 20 new voters every day. Do you think that is reasonable? There are somewhere over 35,000 ACORN employees working. 35,000 times 20 is 700,000 registrations a day. And this goes on for months at a time. Do you really think that there is that many unregistered voters out there? Some of the stories that I have read include stuff like this "In August 2004, election officials in Albuquerque, NM, discovered that an ACORN employee, Christina Gonzales, registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. This registration was only discovered by the boy’s mother when a voter card showed up in the mail. The card contained an incorrect social security number, a fabricated birthday, and only a partially correct address." from the Employment Policies Institute, and this "Part-time ACORN workers receive one day of training and are paid $8 an hour to collect signatures, according to Kettenring. He blamed bogus cards on cheating and lazy employees trying to make a buck for doing nothing." The problem is the employees, and not the company. Another thing is that ACORN isn't even allowed to get rid of registration forms that they themselves can see are fraudulent. According to Fact Check, "ACORN also says it cannot simply discard suspicious forms on its own, but is required by law in most states to submit to local election officials all the forms its canvassers bring in. ACORN's Whelan told us that its own legal counsel strongly advises that the group do the same in states that don't explicitly require it, because "only election officials are legally able to determine the validity of a voter registration application."" ACORN does claim that it flags the registration forms that appear to be fraudulent before sending them into the government officials, but it doesn't seem to be helping them out a whole lot with the election and John McCain blaming them for the "biggest voter fraud in history"

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