Ethics

Hasen on the Voter Fraud Scam

By Ed Brayton

Experts continue to weigh in and blast this absurd notion of rampant voter fraud. Rick Hasen of Loyola Law School, one of the foremost election law experts in the country, writes on his blog that, despite being a critic of ACORN, he recognizes that the GOP's claims are ridiculously hyperbolic:

What is totally missing is perspective. Yes, let's take it as a given that, as I've said, ACORN's business model is broken and the level of criminal activity by some of their rogue employees is unacceptable. (I have gotten a lot of pushback about this, mainly falling into two categories: (1) as a percentage of all ACORN employees, the number actually prosecuted is small, or (2) ACORN is no worse than other registration groups, but it is being targeted because of its political leanings. This is a debate we can have another time.)

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 21, 2008 (boomark / email).