Ethics

More on the Accusations Against ACORN

By Ed Brayton

Daphne Eviatar at the Washington Independent, a sister site to the Michigan Messenger, has been working on the ACORN story as well. In one recent article she looked at the whole issue of voter fraud. One of the key arguments she makes is that despite difficulties in the voter registration process, actual voter fraud of the kind the GOP continually complaints about is virtually non-existent. We hear the constant refrain from the GOP that duplicate voter registration applications, which make up about 25% of the cards turned in by voter registration drives because a lot of people figure they might as well fill one out again to make sure their registration hasn't lapsed, or fraudulent applications, where a dishonest canvasser makes up fake names or grabs them out of the phone book to make their quotas or to make money, lead to actual duplicate or fraudulent voting. But that simply isn't true:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 09, 2008 (boomark / email).