More investigations are finding out that ACORN did not participate in "voter fraud"

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Undeterred by the lack of evidence, Republicans nationwide have repeatedly made serious headline-grabbing allegations against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, the group widely known as ACORN.

With the media helping feed the distrust by giving coverage to every accusation made by a Republican leader, suspicion of ACORN grew. So it should come as no surprise that a survey done by Public Policy Polling found that “a 52 percent majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27 percent granting that he won it legitimately.”

However, an independent investigation of ACORN by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger found no criminal wrongdoing by the organization, and a report released by the Congressional Research Service shortly before Christmas says it couldn’t find any instances in which questionable people registered to vote by ACORN showed up at the polls on Election Day.

The simple truth is that historically, voter registration drives often resulted in destruction of registration cards of opposition voters. Voters who believed they had registered appropriately would come to the polls only to find on Election Day that their registrations hadn’t been submitted. Consequently, laws were passed to prohibit the practice.

These laws required that all registration cards had to be turned in. You could no longer turn in only the registration cards you wanted to turn in — you had to turn them all in. So the law required ACORN to turn in the voter registration cards for Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and every other fraudulent registrant.

As many organizations on both sides of the political aisle did, ACORN paid its employees $1 per new voter registered. While most workers did their jobs and lawfully registered new voters, a few defrauded ACORN by filling out the registration cards themselves and turning them in for the dollar.

In nearly every instance, it was ACORN that discovered the fraud and called it to the attention of election authorities.

The inescapable conclusion to which the evidence leads is that if there is fraud involved with ACORN’s activities, it is being perpetrated by those knowingly making false accusations against the organization.

http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2010/01/acorn_voter_fraud_claims_are_p.html

[Warpy]

1. Organizations that help poor folks know they're under a microscope

by rich men who want to shut them down. Of course Acorn isn't guilty of wrongdoing. Anyone who knows what they do and how they do it and who the responsibility for verifying voter applications lies with already knew that.

It's just annoying that so much time and money has been wasted on investigating them when there are so many other pressing needs.

I wonder how many teachers could have been hired instead of squandering money on investigating them.

[applegrove]

2. GOP is projecting once again. They are the ones with the creepy campaign actions.

I mean look at McCain so desperate for a 'game changer' that he hires Palin who then scares the wits out of America she came so close to power.