Thanks for posting this, it was very interesting. :)

I'm dutch and thus regrettably can't vote. However I just witnessed some friends filling in their absentee ballots, and I was rather freaked out by the fact that all they got from the registers office was a few photocopies to fill in and return. Now there is a scary thing, easy to abuse.

Something is in the water, folks. My conservative, racist, anti-abortion, Mormon uncle has early voted for Obama! Very strange. Only the crazies like this batch of neocon randroids.

Oh, yeah, and may all of these voter suppression scumbags die choking on their own blood---preferably in front of their children on Christmas morning. These people are killers. They have butchered tens of thousands of innocent human beings over the last 8 years. Sickening.

So it's basically what I assumed: a few rogue members working for an otherwise legitimate organization.

And they're right, the fake voter would have to show up in person anyway to vote. And each registration has to get looked into in order to be made valid.

The truth is that it's easier to make real votes disappear, than it is to create false ones.

Thanks so much for posting this response. This ridiculous demonization of ACORN has got to be debunked.

I'm glad this video was made. I hope this doesn't discourage people to vote. It's disgusting that the GOP is trying to suppress an inherent right to *every* American who is 18 or older. Their line of thinking is close the nationalist thinking of the 19th century. Only middle-class white property owners have the right to vote. Jerks.

Ok, I'm done preaching to the choir.

So it's basically what I assumed: a few rogue members working for an otherwise legitimate organization.

Not to mention that the fraud registrations that have been found were reported by...ACORN themselves. Yep, ACORN's self-policing and self-reporting designed to catch fraulent registration (and it is obviously working) is being used against them as "evidence" of voter registration fraud.

I definitely think they are trying to set up some fraud BS in order to contest the election should, maude willing, Obama/Biden win.

It's not so much about setting the stage for a post-election contest, although I wouldn't put it past the GOP. What it is about is a broad Republican plot to eliminate eligible voters from the registration rolls, which has been taking place since 2000.

The best thing we can do right now is do everything we can to get Obama elected in as many states as possible. That way, no contest to results in individual states can have a large enough effect to deny Obama his 270+ electoral votes.

Also, I just want to say that we need to make sure to that we are saying "voter registration fraud" when speaking about this issue. I know it seems subtle, but there is a difference between voter registration fraud and actual voter fraud.

Dahlia Lithwick wrote a great column at Slate about the Republicans' strategy concerning ACORN and other allegations of voter fraud/registration fraud. It's about more than this election. It's about casting doubt on the entire electoral system.

When Indiana's voter ID law went before the Supreme Court last term, its proponents could come up with only a handful of verified voter fraud cases in U.S. history. But the justices were willing to disenfranchise voters (like nuns from Notre Dame who couldn't vote in the Indiana primary because they didn't have the correct ID) in order to shore up voter confidence, which Republicans have consistently and deliberately undermined by telling tales about dead people voting.

Personally, I found that court decision outrageous. When it comes to free speech, our Constitution allows plenty of hateful or disgusting things to be said to make sure it's not stepping on anyone's rights. But isn't the right to vote just as important? Shouldn't our government err in favor of the voters, especially when there's little to no evidence of fraud actually affecting elections? But it hasn't, and that's the ultimate effect of lies like these.

I was just reading about this over at Slacktivist.

I'm a Canadian with dual citizenship (my American-born parents applied for it on my behalf), and this year I signed up to vote. Sent in my absentee ballot just today. :)

I don't think this is about a legal challenge, except perhaps in states that are close. I think the Republicans are far more interested in stirring up right wing riots similar to what happened in Florida in 2000. Right wingers have no shame and are capable of anything.

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