Nuts About ACORN
...The right-wing feeding frenzy over the vile vote-fraud treachery of ACORN has yet to yield much fruit.... What's the real point of turning voter-registration shenanigans into "one of the greatest frauds in voter history"? The object here is not criminal indictments. It's to undermine voter confidence in the elections system as a whole. John McCain wants to build a better bogeyman, and he needs your help to do it.
ACORN stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. It's a 30-year-old nonprofit that organizes on behalf of poor urban minorities, and it has registered 1.3 million new voters this year....
The connection between wrongful voter registration and actual polling-place vote fraud is the stuff of GOP mythology.... Large-scale, coordinated vote stealing doesn't happen.... Each time they spread the word that Democrats (especially poor and minority Democrats) are poised to steal an election, John McCain and his overheated friends deliberately undermine voter confidence. That is the point.
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