I agree with your comments. But I think your last 4 paragraphs are the most important! Voter fraud cost Al Gore the election in 2000. The ACORN situation is much different. It is only those temps trying to fraud ACORN by not filling out legitimate forms.

BUT there is another problem. Now the people at the voter registration offices who are charged with verifying the information turned in are likely to throw out valid forms along with the trash. I’m willing to bet that there will be more than one person who registered this year, shows up to vote, and finds that their name is not on the list.

We need to reform voter registration.

Since you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about, let me set the record straight on ACORN. ACORN stands for “Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.” It’s purpose is to promote voter registration among demographics that are poorly represented, such as the poor, minorities, and the homeless.

With such a great push to register voters for this election, ACORN hired temps to take voter registration forms to places where they were likely to find under-represented populations, and help unregistered voters fill out the forms. These temps were paid a certain amount per form they got filled-out and brought back.

Well, it turns out that some of these temps didn’t go anywhere… they sat at home and filled out the forms with made-up names just to make a quick buck without having to go into neighborhoods where they didn’t feel safe. The result was a large number of fraudulent voter registration forms. But this problem was identified pretty quickly, mainly because election officials easily recognized that Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Spider Mann were not actual people (yes these and many more improbable names appeared on the forms.)

One might argue that ACORN supervisors might have been more diligent about verifying the information before turning-in the forms, but frankly, that would have eaten-up more than half their budget, so they didn’t really bother to check. But one cannot tie this minor fiasco to Senator Obama. The temps who filled-out the fraudulent forms were, I suspect, young neoconservative college-student types who wanted to cheat ACORN out of some money while throwing a monkey-wrench in voter registration drives.

But let me make an important point. Unless Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Spider Mann show up at the polling place on November 4th, there will be no voter fraud. There will be no “stuffing the ballot box.” And anyone who thinks that was the intention is a fool.

Meanwhile, the GOP has been making a concerted effort to disenfranchise legitimately registered voters in heavily democratic areas, and they have been doing it openly. The Obama campaign even filed a lawsuit against them for it.

I remember the 2000 election, when GOP lawyers got thousands of ballots thrown-out in Florida, allowing George Bush to STEAL the election.

If you want to talk about illegitimate practices at the polls, then let’s talk about the damned “lie, cheat, and win at any cost” REPUBLICAN PARTY.

It’s becoming common place for Obama to be in company of those who have no problem with breaking the law. I guess the key component in breaking the law for Obama and his compadres is only they can choose which laws to break. Hypocritical but expected from someone who is just another damned politician.