Ethics

The Incredible Shrinking ACORN Allegations

By Ed Brayton

On Monday, I interviewed Maurice Thompson of the Buckeye Institute, the group who filed a RICO suit against ACORN in Ohio. I asked him if he could provide any examples of someone actually getting to vote illegitimately as a result of any action by ACORN and this was his answer:

"Yes. New Mexico during the Democrat primaries this year. Only one house district performed any kind of quantitative analysis, but they found 80 some individuals who actually cast fraudulent votes because they were fraudulently registered. Not all of those were ACORN, but many of those were."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 31, 2008 (boomark / email).