Ethics

The Truth About ACORN

By Ed Brayton

I have a long and detailed article at the Michigan Messenger that looks at the accusations of voter fraud leveled by the right against ACORN. The conclusion: it's pretty much all a bunch of nonsense. Yes, ACORN has had a very small percentage of their canvassers commit fraud, but ACORN is the victim of that fraud rather than the perpetrator. They turn their own canvassers in and provide all the evidence needed to convict them to election officials. When you have huge numbers of people out there taking applications it is inevitable that a few of them are going to take shortcuts to make a buck. Please pardon the bad pun in the headline; it wasn't my idea.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).