From Tiny ACORNS

My BTR partner Jazz Shaw has a great post at The Moderate Voice today about ACORN and the voter fraud that they are perpetuating in many swing states.

Let me preface this post by saying that I still believe 100% in Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts. The more informed voters we have out there considering the issues and casting their votes, the better off we are. We, as a country, may make mistakes now and again, but hopefully we learn from them and move on more the wiser. But there is one group - specifically the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN - who just seems to keep showing up in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Case in point: In Indiana, the Marion County (Indianapolis) area seems to have managed the
astonishing task of registering 105% of its eligible residents to vote.

So we have 644,197 people eligible to be registered in Marion County/Indianapolis, and 677,401 people registered. Congratulations go to Indianapolis for having 105% of its residents registered!

Or how about registering a 7 year old girl to vote in Connecticut? Or one man in Cleveland who was registered to vote three times in a single day using two different home addresses? Perhaps you prefer the story of a convicted felon in Milwaukee registering not only himself to vote, but registering others as well? (No matter your take on felon voting restrictions, it’s currently illegal in Wisconsin and ACORN should know that.)

Then there is the story out of Nevada where ACORN registered the entire Dallas Cowboys starting line-up as residents/voters of Nevada. Fox News just reported about a woman in Ohio who claims that ACORN workers harassed her into registering multiple times saying "just sign your name and give us the last 4 of your social (security number) and we will do the rest."(no video link is up yet but the NY Post talks to a pizza delivery driver who was urged to register 10-15 times!)

Voter fraud is an issue that should not have ideological divisions. As Americans who love our Republic we should all be appalled at these actions and we should ALL denounce the fraud that ACORN is committing. As Jazz said, everyone who is eligible to vote should be allowed to vote. That is a given. However, election tampering needs to be nipped in the bud quickly and visibly. It is the only way to make sure that our elections remain above board.