My God aren't the Republicans beginning to look more and more like the old
Dixiecrat party of the South, anti-Civil Rights, anti-Voting Rights.
What in the world are they doing trying to vilify a voter registration movement?
Republicans are falsely screaming fake registrations to try slow it down. This is a tactic, its time the American people realize what the Republicans are doing and condemn it.
From Politico.com article today.
The ACORN war rages on. Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) called today
for a "full-scale" investigation into allegedly ACORN-led voter fraud
in Missouri and across the nation. Up until just a few weeks ago, ACORN
was an obscure community organizing group allied with Democrats and
pushing for access to affordable housing. It is now one of the GOP's
top targets, called out at McCain-Palin events and the subject of
untold viral e-mails.
Blunt's call is for an investigation into voter-registration fraud,
which is significantly different than voter fraud. Voter registration
fraud generally means that people paid to register voters got lazy and
faked the registration by filling in the name of, say, a Dallas Cowboys
offensive lineman instead of registering an actual voter. Faking a
registration is easier than registering an actual voter and the pay is
the same. The people who have been fraudently registered, however, will
not vote. An ACORN contractor may have made off with $30 bucks for
registering Donald Duck, but it's more likely that someone on election
day will vote for Donald Duck than that Mr. Duck will show up to vote
himself.
While not a major crime,
the fake registrations are a problem for elections administrators, as
Blunt points out. “Fraudulent voter registration slows down the
processing of those who are legitimately trying to register to vote,"
he notes. "These kinds of activities threaten to disenfranchise
legitimate voters who want to make their voices heard on November 4,
and underscore why House Republicans fought hard to get a millions of
dollars directed to ACORN removed from the recently-passed financial
rescue package."
The full Blunt statement -- with a note on ACORN from Blunt -- after the jump...
» Continue reading Blunt continues ACORN war
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Blunt Urges Full-Scale Investigation into Missouri, Nationwide Voter Fraud Allegations
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A former secretary of state in Missouri, House
Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) today called on federal investigators
to respond to widespread allegations of voter fraud by the political
activist group ACORN in states across the country, including Missouri,
which potentially could imperil the integrity of this year’s election.
Blunt issued the following statement:
“Preserving the integrity of our election process is critical to the
foundations of our democracy. But sadly, groups like ACORN appear to be
engaging in a systematic attempt to deny this basic right to millions
of legitimate American voters. Charges of wrong-doing have even cropped
up in my home state of Missouri, where hundreds of highly-suspect voter
registration forms have been submitted in Kansas City alone.
“Fraudulent voter registration slows down the processing of those who
are legitimately trying to register to vote. These kinds of activities
threaten to disenfranchise legitimate voters who want to make their
voices heard on November 4, and underscore why House Republicans fought
hard to get a millions of dollars directed to ACORN removed from the
recently-passed financial rescue package.
“Given the scope and severity of the allegations against ACORN, I
believe we are witnessing a national trend that must be fully
investigated to protect the sanctity of our elections. Americans who
come out to vote deserve to have confidence in the electoral system and
to know that their vote will be counted.”
NOTE: ACORN had their offices raided in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October
7, 2008, and admitted on October 8, 2008, to submitting fraudulent
voter registrations among the 65,000 forms it submitted in Cuyahoga
County, Ohio. An Associated Press story out of Missouri today confirmed
that hundreds of “fraudulent registration forms came from …ACORN” in
Kansas City alone. Today is the last day people in Missouri can
register to vote.
