ACORN and Voting Suppression

October 6, 2008, 3:58 pm
The Election Dirty Tricks Have Begun
By The Editorial Board

ACORN is a non profit organization which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which is now under investigation by state and federal authorities . The problem with this activist group is that the republican party is accusing them for registration fraud like setting up fake ballots which fake people like Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck. Its not entirely ACORN's fault like they are making it seem like. ACORN is only allowed to give their ballots to the voting representatives and its up them to then catch all the voting frauds that come through. It illegal for ACORN to throw out or not accept all the ballots that are given to them even if they are fake or not, the only thing they can do is let the voting representatives know that a stack of ballots looks suspicious and then have them take it over from there.

Voting Suppression is when people try to restrict your ability to vote. They may do this by sending false letters or phone calls to your house. The Philadelphia Daily reported "an anonymous flier has shown up in African-American neighborhoods in North and West Philadelphia saying (falsely, of course) that voters who face outstanding arrest warrants or have unpaid traffic tickets could be arrested if they go to the polls." These people think that if they give out false information to people it will restrict them from voting. Sadly, alot of people do fall for this and end up not voting.

I think the real problem is the voting suppression. ACORN doesn't have a choice to not except fraud ballots but people get away with voting suppression all the time. Voting suppression is more of the scandal out of the two too. Alot of the media (and John McCain) makes a big deal out of ACORN when its only a little problem and not entirely their fault.



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