Acorn’s Tally of New Voters Was Vastly Overstated

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On Oct. 6, the community organizing group Acorn and an affiliated charity called Project Vote announced with jubilation that they had registered 1.3 million new voters. But it turns out the claim was a wild exaggeration, and the real number of newly registered voters nationwide is closer to 450,000, Project Vote’s executive director, Michael Slater, said in an interview.

The remainder are registered voters who were changing their address and roughly 400,000 that were rejected by election officials for a variety of reasons, including duplicate registrations, incomplete forms and fraudulent submissions from low-paid field workers trying to please their supervisors, Mr. Slater acknowledged.

In registration drives, it is common for a percentage of newly registered voters to be disqualified for various reasons, although experts say the percentage is higher when groups pay workers to gather registrations. But the disclosure on Thursday that 30 percent of Acorn’s registrations were faulty was described by Republicans as further proof of what they said was Acorn’s effort to tilt the election unfairly.

“We were wondering how many were Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse,” said Danny Diaz, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee. “The group is really tainted, and any work they do is suspect.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/us/politics/24acorn.html?th&emc=th

[Parche]

1. Repubes and Acorn

I am so tired of hearing them go on about ACORN, even
FAUX was blabbing about it this morning
Of course you are going to get people who do that, that has probably happened with
repubes going out and signing people up, you just dont hear about those
There is no crime, until you try to vote using a different name etc....

:grr: :hi:

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2. Their attacks on ACORN are a smoke screen intended to deflect attention

away from the g.o.p.s far more agregious assault on the democratic process.

[Enthusiast]

3. Exactly. I would love for the media

besides Keith O to point this out.