Thursday, October 23, 2008

How Do You Like Them ACORNs?

George's post below (and the link contained therein) on voter fraud got me thinking about ACORN's recent malfesance. Doesn't it strike anyone as strange that the registration fraud they are engaging in is so obvious (duplicates, phony names, etc.), to the extent that the group wants election commissions and the media to take notice?

If that's the case, the only reason I can think that ACORN would do that is to take attention away from something else it is engaging in. Any thoughts on what that might be? I get concerned even speculating.

2 comments:

Thomas M.F. Jefferson said...

According to this article http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/22/voter.fraud/index.html ACORN workers were paid for the amount the voter registrations they turned in. Ergo, you turn in more, you get paid more. Some were just better at it than others e.g. using the phone book or obituary notices rather than just making up names like Mickey Mouse.

Alexander M.F. Hamilton said...

I agree, but ACORN has to have some kind of vetting system.