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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: asdf2231 on October 10, 2008, 12:31:39 PM
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Cooley Hurd (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-10-08 09:32 AM
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Who were the ACORN volunteers that turned in the fraudulent registrations...
...in Gary, IN (as per CNN)?
Could they have been infiltrated by Republicans determined to bring down ACORN from within?
Can someone talk me down?
blm (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-10-08 10:03 AM
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4. Of course they're long planted operatives - this is EXACTLY how Rove operates and
DNC should've been on this as soon as John Fund's book came out making hyperbolic claims about Democratic vote fraud. Rove needed US attorneys to file vote fraud charges for PERCEPTION of left fraud to divert from his own deceit......it will confuse public and pundits who will claim vote stealing from BOTH sides.
yardwork (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-10-08 10:33 AM
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9. I've been wondering the same thing. In any case, this is silly.
If the registrations are fraudulent, nobody will show up to vote. If there are fraudulent registrations, then it was either an employee trying to pad their numbers or a plant trying to create this issue.
Going after ACORN - a little grassroots organization that registers poor people to vote - is clearly just the Republican attempt to cause trouble among Democrats and intimidate people into not voting. The Republicans are being jerks about this, and I'm disappointed that so many Democrats are going along with it.
I repeat. If the registrations are fraudulent, so what? They can't vote.
Essene (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-10-08 10:35 AM
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10. ACORN has always relied on rabid, ultra-left local volunteers & it gets them in trouble
Obama... and democrats... need to seriously just call it like it is.
VOTER FRAUD.
Let it go. Do not defend the behavior or ACORN. There is no need.
Trust me.. there's a long, long history of grievances with them. They are overall a good organization doing good things, but there's a reason Fox and Mccain are going to focus on them as much as they can.
prolesunited (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-10-08 11:42 AM
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20. Ummm...
no voter fraud was ever committed. Registrations are NOT the same as ballots.
Also, Indiana has a very strict photo ID law to cast a ballot. Don't have an ID, you can't vote. Even if someone tried to vote as Jimmy John, he couldn't because he doesn't a state-issued ID. (And with increased security, getting a fake ID isn't like when we were teens.)
My guess it was lazy workers trying to pad their numbers. Yes, ACORN should improved methods of quality control and accountability, but way more is being made out of this than it is.
I repeat, no voter fraud. Registrations are not the same as votes.
The media SHOULD be focusing on the millions of legally eligible voters being removed from the rolls in caging schemes across the country.
crankychatter (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-10-08 11:45 AM
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22. That explains the dishonesty... they were LIBERALS... golly, thanks for clearing that up
jeezus ****, do you EVER have an opinion that isn't anti-Black, anti-Activist or anti-Liberal?
What ARE you doing here?
Sentinel Chicken (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-10-08 11:00 AM
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18. It sounds like something they would pull.
Turn a few thousand bogus registrations with ACORN on them and then produce them as evidence that all the registrations ACORN turned in must be bogus. And coincidentally, nobody seems to know who it was that collected the bogus registrations.
MarjorieG (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-10-08 01:16 PM
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39. How did the GOP become aware. Honest mistake or infiltration? ACORN & Fannie/Freddie being made ...
scapegoats for housing mess (ie AAs). As if the global interdependency and markets had nothing to do with it. Throw in the UN, and we have whipping posts.
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Well I could have told them it's Teh Rove... :-)
Too funny, the DUmp must be getting worried about ACORN. It's so friggen
obvious they are nothing but Dem supported POS.
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Either they're completely ignorant about how the Chicago Machine stuffed ballot boxes in the past or they're playing dumb. I'm going with them really being dumb and not having to pretend.
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Either they're completely ignorant about how the Chicago Machine stuffed ballot boxes in the past or they're playing dumb. I'm going with them really being dumb and not having to pretend.
Thread is so dumb, I wonder if it was started by a mole.
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You know, before they get through culling all the bad votes and counting just the good votes, Bush may have to declare "marshall" law and serve another 4 years. :tongue:
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prolesunited (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-10-08 11:42 AM
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20. Ummm...
no voter fraud was ever committed. Registrations are NOT the same as ballots.
Also, Indiana has a very strict photo ID law to cast a ballot. Don't have an ID, you can't vote. Even if someone tried to vote as Jimmy John, he couldn't because he doesn't a state-issued ID. (And with increased security, getting a fake ID isn't like when we were teens.)
And there is the explanation for the law suits trying to force states NOT to require ID. :loser: