McCain’s New Strategy: I’ll Lose Because Of Voter Fraud
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain, VideoFolks, I don’t care what you think about ACORN, but voter registration fraud is MUCH different that actually voter fraud.
Yes, you’ve seen the headlines saying Mickey Mouse registered to vote. And sure, it’s troubling that ACORN doesn’t have good quality control checks. However, does anybody think Mickey Mouse will actually be able to vote?
The answer of course is no, but that doesn’t stop McCain from trying to throw the results of the election into doubt 3 weeks beforehand…
McCain knows what he’s doing. He knows the difference between voter registration fraud and voter fraud. And yet he’s trying to tie the activities of ACORN to Obama and saying they have some sort of conspiratorial relationship. What’s more, Palin has been on the campaign trail saying that Obama needs to rein ACORN in, again making it seem like Obama somehow runs ACORN because he was once a community organizer.
Well, why not John McCain? After all, he has a relationship with ACORN too.
Here’s McCain in 2006 at an ACORN rally commending their work.
Quote from the video: “What makes American special is what’s in this room tonight.”
So make of that what you will. It certainly doesn’t excuse the lack of oversight by ACORN, but it also makes McCain’s accusations paper thin and intellectually dishonest.
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October 15th, 2008 at 10:32 am
From what I’ve heard, there’s not a lack of oversight by ACORN. They’re legally obligated to submit all of the forms they collect (even Mickey Mouse), and they do a reasonably good job of flagging suspicious registrations for the authorities. As soon as this story started circulating, I started thinking it was intended to cast doubt on the election outcome.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I’ve heard that ACORN must, BY LAW, turn in all the forms, even ones that seem blatantly erroneous (which they flag as such). Does anyone know if this is true?
October 15th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I think it is the $700,000 the Obama campaign gave them that ties the Obama campaign to ACRON. (Are you saying it doesn’t?)
Besides, isn’t voter registration fraud a path to vote fraud? I mean there are already reports of absentee ballots for phony voters being sent directly to ACORN workers. They wouldn’t have been able to do that without the registration fraud.
Feel free to discount McCain’s specific concerns…but you could throw a little concern about the disregard for the law being perpetrated by ACORN.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
This is eerily similar to the whispers that Diebold was going to steal the election for Bush in 2004. I guess this is how you run an underdog campaign these days.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
ACORN employed 1,300 temp workers for voter registration. Those workers registered 1.3 million valid new voters. In every batch of workers, you will have a few bad apples. Does that justify it? No. But, it’s true that ACORN has complied with investigations 100% and every bit of evidence there is against ACORN, ACORN has provided. Voter registration fraud has never been proven to lead to voter fraud. ACORN has been investigated in every election since 2000 in multiple states, and although specific workers (that ACORN turned in for prosecution) have been found guilty, every case against ACORN as a whole in 2004 was dismissed for lack of evidence. As for the “absentee ballots for phony voters sent directly to ACORN workers,” if this is the case, they would not be counted. One vote per social security number. You have to have a social security number to process an absentee ballot. And yes, ACORN must by law turn in all ballots, even if they are for mickey mouse.