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CNN lies about ACORN 54 times which is certainly better than, say, a billion. 

What I really want an ACORN critic to do is to explain this hypothetical (I’m such a law student): most campaigns and party organizations register voters on their own as well.  Suppose that the Smith County Republican Party gets a bunch of voter registrations, and Voter X gives them a form which bears the name “Brad Pitt”.  Legally, they cannot discard the form.  They cannot simply hold onto the form until after the election, particularly if Mr. Pitt is actually a real voter.  If Mr. Pitt brought in his friends Shiloh, Maddox, Zahara, Pax, Knox and Vivienne Pitt who all also registered, snickering and high-fiving the whole time, and they filled out the forms to completion, what is it that the Smith County GOP could do that would prevent them from becoming their county’s ACORN? 

The readers of People Magazine demand an answer.

 

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Posted by Jesse Taylor on 11:31 AM • (12) Comments

Too bad you don’t get to say that on a news/talk show.  Of course, even if you did get the chance, you’d just have to shout over somebody else’s cross-talk and nobody would really hear it.  :(

Comment #1: Cris  on  10/17  at  01:05 PM

Well, you’re missing the key element here.

The Smith County GOP is registering people who are white.

ACORN is registering people who are not white.

Hence: Smith County GOP = following the law. ACORN = the end of democracy 4EVAR.

Comment #2: Scott  on  10/17  at  02:19 PM

PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE DESTROYING THE VERY FABRIC OF DEMOCRACY!


(Is democracy made out of muslin?)

Comment #3: Amanduh  on  10/17  at  02:23 PM

CNN only network to show twisted ACORN coverage. Some networks will resort to any tactic, including trans hate, to portray ACORN as positively evil.

Comment #4: Renee  on  10/17  at  02:24 PM

Jesse brings up the point I’m patiently waiting to see a news network take up: How do other organizations that register voters handle these problems? Are their results better, worse, or the same?

Before you can decide whether events are abnormal, you need a “normal” for comparison.

Comment #5: Quaker in a Basement  on  10/17  at  03:01 PM

Everyone involved in your scenario is presumably white.  QED.

Comment #6: Amanda Marcotte  on  10/17  at  03:11 PM

Okay, I’m cross-posting myself, but still:

David Iglesias, one of the US Attorneys fired for not pursuing phony voter fraud cases strongly enough, has a little something to say about the ACORN raid.

You’d think that having employees of the DOJ already under investigation for trumping up charges of voter fraud might mitigate the GOP’s attempt to trump up charges of voter fraud this year, but I guess that’s something a rational party would do.

Comment #7: Mnemosyne  on  10/17  at  03:16 PM

This exact thing happened to me in 2004.  I got a voter registration from a person with a name on it which wasn’t “Mickey Mouse” but it was just about as ridiculous.  I thought he was putting me on.

Turns out it was his real name! Not only would I have broken the law if I hadn’t turned in that form, I would’ve deprived that kid of his vote.  So I’m damned glad I did turn it in and let the board of elections worry about whether it was real or not.

Comment #8: human  on  10/17  at  03:38 PM

That’s true, human.

I worked for years in a big corporation with a huge member database. Several workers their kept a private list of whacky, rude-sounding, and unbelievable names. The fact that there really are people name Ura Dick or Candy Apple means there must be some doozies out there that are genuine registration forms.

Comment #9: Samantha Vimes  on  10/17  at  04:28 PM

If someone handed me a form with the name Track Palin, I would be inclined to laugh.

Comment #10: Humbert Dinglepencker  on  10/17  at  05:20 PM

No, Jesse, they would just discard the registrations the way any patriotic american would when faced by someone planning to vote for the democrat party. And the local law-enforcement people would say, “Move along now, nothing to see.”

Comment #11: paul  on  10/17  at  10:18 PM

This interesting story broke today in Los Angeles:

Voters say they were duped into registering as Republicans

Stay classy, Repugs!

Comment #12: Mnemosyne  on  10/18  at  05:15 PM
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