Re: ACORN caught doing voter fraud

On Oct 8, 7:38 pm, rafiki <fi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gee I wonder which candidate they are supporting?

--rafiki

Thank you drive through.

No, thank YOU...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/8/10526/3244/637/623819

That "shoddy oversight" would be the Ohio Secretary of State's Office,
because under Ohio law, ex-felons have the legal right to vote.

Republicans want to kick up as much sand as they can about so-called
"voter fraud," in order to cast doubt on the election results and
prepare the rhetorical ground for post-election recounts.
Coincidentally, I spoke at a Federalist Society symposium yesterday on
election law, and while the Wall Street Journal's John Fund and I
don't agree on much, he and I both stressed the need to have these
elections run in such a way -- especially at this precarious juncture
in our nation's path -- that gives citizens the confidence that the
election was conducted honorably and that the votes were tallied
properly.

Now, part of where he and I differ on that is that while he's more
concerned about alleged fraud committed by potential voters -- and on
that, he like many other conservatives tends to conflate issues of
voter registration problems with actual voter impersonation at the
polls -- I'd rather shift the focus to fraud committed to potential
voters, as I explained yesterday:

Last week, fliers were anonymously placed under car windshield
wipers in minority sections of my home town Philadelphia, insisting
that "on the day of the election there will be undercover officers to
execute warrants" based on those who come out to vote and that anyone
who had "outstanding warrants or traffic offenses" had better clear
things up, since voting was the one time they had to use their real
identities. The flier also asserted that at polling places, police
cars equipped with "plate identification computers" would boot any
scofflaw cards. (Similarly, in Northwest Baltimore in 2002, The
unsigned flier read: "URGENT NOTICE. Come out to vote on November 6th.
Before you come to vote make sure you pay your parking tickets, motor
vehicle tickets, overdue rent and most important any warrants.")

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, back during our 2003 Mayor's race,
men with clipboards driving black vans bearing official-looking
insignias were reportedly dispatched to African American neighborhoods
to ask minority voters for their identification cards. Tom Lindenfeld,
who ran a counter-intimidation campaign for Democratic candidate John
Street, said there were 300 cars with the decals resembling such
federal agencies as the DEA and ATF and that the men were asking
prospective voters for identification. In a post-election poll of 1000
African-American voters, seven percent said they had encountered such
efforts.

And this one is particularly egregious -- during Louisiana’s 2002
runoff election which reelected Senator Mary Landrieu, flyers were
distributed in black public housing complexes in New Orleans, reading
in part: "Vote!!! Bad Weather? No problem!!! If the weather is
uncomfortable on election day (Saturday December 7th) Remember you can
wait and cast your ballot on Tuesday December 10th."

[You couldn't.]

So, what are we to do about it? There’s a bill before the
Congress right now – the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation
Prevention Act, and it’s bipartisan because Tom Coburn’s a co-sponsor,
even if my election law professor is the lead, which would makes it a
crime for anyone to, within 60 days before a federal election:

* lie about the time, place or manner of the election;
* lie about voter eligibility, whether regarding an
individual's eligibility or general qualifications to vote;
* lie about the party affiliation of someone running in a
primary;
* lie about an endorsement by any person or candidate.

The bill, as reported out of Judiciary, doesn’t even have a
private right of action – it’s all up to DOJ to enforce.

As for the current ACORN issues, well, obtaining 100% quality control
from low-paid part-time workers is impossible, and from everything
I've read, ACORN has been aggressively reviewing workers and its
applications, flagging the bad ones, but under state law you're
generally required to turn in all applications that you collect
because, otherwise, you're just opening the door to ridculous
chicanery. As long as ACORN continues to cooperate with every
legitimate investigation, then it's all a big nothing -- especially
without evidence that people are showing up to the polls claiming to
be "Mickey Mouse."

******

Back to you Raf!

Jason "Mickey Souse" Todd
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