READER COMMENTS ON

"1.3 Million Reasons for the GOP's 'Dixie-Chicking' of ACORN"

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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]

... Dale said on 10/12/2008 @ 4:23 pm PT...





Cant believe that there are no comments yet. I read the article, and all the articles linked to it. I have one question for you Brad. The 1.3 million new voters that ACORN registered. Is the number the total they collected, or the number they collected that they did not "flag" as possibly being bad? In other words is the 1.3 million a good number, or is the number closer to 1.2 million or less?

Also the Prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s wrote a letter to the New York Times saying he is "outraged" that the republicans are trying to link Ayers and Obama. See the link at www.republicantricks.com or

http://www.nytimes.com/2...p;sq=ibershof&st=cse

COMMENT #2 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 10/12/2008 @ 4:51 pm PT...





Seems ever since I can remember, the Pukes have been whining about ACORN because it offsets (cancels out) their suppression tactics. Ayers was a fat cats kid most likely fighting against his daddy...(Daddy says 'those damn liberal colleges!!!')

Link

COMMENT #3 [Permalink]

... Mugzi said on 10/12/2008 @ 5:53 pm PT...





Yes, getting the word out helps, the more people know about righting the wrong is a good thing! Maybe the Repugs are worried about flipping votes, it's easier just to discourage voters from voting...I know it is a naive question, but if a state is blamed for dumping voters from the voting lists, can't they just go back and add the names??..

COMMENT #4 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 10/12/2008 @ 8:46 pm PT...





Thanks for posting this, Bub! Do the Republicans play the corporate media like a fiddle, or is the corporate media "in on it"? That's the only question that I have. I think they're "in on it", we'll see if there's retractions or reporting by them of ACORN's side, or if they'll cover Sarah Palin's late Friday "abuse of power" announcement on Monday. Or will the continue simply being a megaphone for anything and everything the Republicans throw against the wall!

COMMENT #5 [Permalink]

... Choco said on 10/12/2008 @ 9:17 pm PT...





So, if ACORN pays canvassers by the hour, not the card, there is little reason for fraudulent cards. If organized election fraud is the goal, then it would take an army of volunteers going from polling place to polling place, posing as these fraudulent registrants to sway an election. Nearly impossible to do. Also, there is no logical reason for registrations under names such as Mickey Mouse or the the Dallas Cowboys starting line-up. That just calls attention to a likely fraudulent card. The most logical explanation I see, beyond mere stupidity on the part of the canvassers, is a deliberate attempt to sabotage ACORNS efforts using planted canvassers. But who would do such a thing?

COMMENT #6 [Permalink]

... TEDEGER said on 10/12/2008 @ 11:16 pm PT...





Answer; Rovians, relying on the power of rumor and innuendo to destroy a perceived enemy. But- for the hell of it, everyone, copy the main press release and send it to Lou Dobbs, Jack Cafferty, Keith Olbermann and the local fishwrapper!

COMMENT #7 [Permalink]

... Richard Higer said on 10/13/2008 @ 3:58 am PT...





I have read the info on Acorn and Acorn's own response to charges of voter fraud.

It seems no one who makes this charge ever says that there has been any actual proof of voter fraud because of false registration forms.

Why hasn't CNN and particularly Lou Dobbs added these responses and facts to their reporting?

COMMENT #8 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 10/13/2008 @ 5:04 am PT...





#7, read #4 and you'll get it

COMMENT #9 [Permalink]

... Phil said on 10/13/2008 @ 5:10 am PT...





I must admit, I didn't reply because I am at a total loss of words or ideas that are acceptable in a civil society. It's like my country has been completely destroyed, and the people that care and swore an oath to not let this happen, can't do anything about it. There's too few of us now, and new laws have been created to make us irrelevant. Without a television network media to tell the truth, no light will be shown on the cancer in government. Without election cops that are going to go against the law enforcement cops, what point is anything anymore? Our country has been completely taken over, and is now run by unseen bankers. Corruption pays well, while poverty get's worse. It probably won't matter much longer because neither candidate has a ticket to hop aboard the cluetrain to fix the "TRUST PROBLEM" in the markets.

COMMENT #10 [Permalink]

... Smithy said on 10/13/2008 @ 8:08 am PT...





Anyone who has donated money to this site in order to presevre voting rights in this country should stop today. Every fraudulent vote that Acorn produced cancels the vote of a legal and rightful voter. Brads effort to cover this up shows us that he isnt interested in legal accurate voting, hes interested in party politics.

Brad, you should be ashamed. [Ed Note: Thanks for the reminder "Smithy"! If you'd like to make a donation to The BRAD BLOG in "honor" of "Smithy", and other dishonerable cowards and liars (there are exactly zero "fraudulent vote[s] that Acorn [has] produced") like him/her, we'd much welcome it!]

COMMENT #11 [Permalink]

... InspiredByTruth said on 10/13/2008 @ 8:38 am PT...





Anyone who has donated money to this site in order to presevre voting rights in this country should stop today. Every fraudulent vote that Acorn produced cancels the vote of a legal and rightful voter. Brads effort to cover this up shows us that he isnt interested in legal accurate voting, hes interested in party politics. Brad, you should be ashamed. Excuse me? I canvassed for 6 months for the '04 election (not for Acorn) so I know what canvassers go through. Some people will fill out a form using fake info because they don't want to say no to you or they think its a joke. It doesn't happen frequently, but its not uncommon. In those cases the registrations are flagged, and as Brad reported, MUST be handed over regardless of whether they are already flagged as fraudulent. This is to ensure voter registration groups aren't suppressing registrations from any particular party or group. Of course, if the GOP had their way, a major registrar of poor & minority voters in swing states would be shut down, for doing nothing other than following their legal requirement of reporting false registrations. This may also be a tactic to try and push them to start trashing flagged registrations (which really would be illegal), fortunately they are not falling for it, and all this attention as probably helped them ALOT with new registrations! Reporting the truth about a false propaganda effort isn't a "cover up". Obviously you are bothered by how thoroughly this report debunks the GOP voter disenfranchisement campaign.

COMMENT #12 [Permalink]

... InspiredByTruth said on 10/13/2008 @ 8:45 am PT...





I have one question for you Brad. The 1.3 million new voters that ACORN registered. Is the number the total they collected, or the number they collected that they did not "flag" as possibly being bad? The release says that is the number of voters they have registered, a flagged form is not registered, so they would not be counted in registration totals.

COMMENT #13 [Permalink]

... Kmac said on 10/13/2008 @ 9:45 am PT...





Without a television network media to tell the truth, no light will be shown on the cancer in government. This has been the case through many elections. Absolute lies against a candidate are flung onto the news . . . proof to substantiate they were lies are uncovered byut never aired.

COMMENT #14 [Permalink]

... Roxanne said on 10/13/2008 @ 7:06 pm PT...





Why hasn't the MEDIA Covered the McCain camp ACTUALLY MAILING FAKE absentee ballots & registration cards from Florida to Oregon? http://michiganmessenger.../rove-rove-rove-the-vote

http://www.ickypeople.co...ke-absentee-ballots.html

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1OkF6J

http://productshopnyc.co...s_florida_residents.html

COMMENT #15 [Permalink]

... Carey Stronach said on 10/14/2008 @ 10:37 am PT...





Jesus loves me, this I know,

Sarah Palin tells me so;

George Bush and John McCain,

They are dumb, but she's insane!

COMMENT #16 [Permalink]

... Michael S. said on 10/16/2008 @ 11:54 am PT...





Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but it's not to hard to come up with a scenario in which a group (ACORN) intentionally uses the registration rules to their own advantage. They (ACORN) state they turn in ALL voter registrations (even the known bad ones) because they are required to by law. This is well and good if, and only if, the 'incorrect' registrations are truly the sole fault of actual registrants. When your (ACORN's) employees are the one's committing the fraud that's a whole different story. When it's your own 'upstanding' employees that are simply copying names out of phone books, making addresses up and then signing all the registration forms in the same handwriting it is absolutely disingenuous to try and pretend that they are blameless in the problem. Gee, let's hire a bunch of morons knowing full well there is a good chance they will simply turn in piles of garbage registrations just to make a little cash (or cigarettes and drugs as some have alleged). Now we have thousands and thousands of registrations we could have predicted in advance would be suspect at best. But hey, the law says we HAVE to turn them all in, so here you go ... (fill in your favorite swing state election board here) ... we tried real hard to verify these and we were even so kind to flag all the ones we 'think' might be bad. Get back to us in six months when you (the election board) have had time to review them. (Heavy snickering and sarcasm here). Oh, we're sorry, we didn't realize that the election is in just two months, guess you better get busy checking those out.

COMMENT #17 [Permalink]

... Mapk said on 10/17/2008 @ 7:22 pm PT...



COMMENT #18 [Permalink]

... CambridgeKnitter said on 10/17/2008 @ 9:52 pm PT...





#17: Convicted? Really? That's not what that article says at all. Not that I'm surprised, you understand. Without lies, some people wouldn't have anything to say ever.

COMMENT #19 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 10/17/2008 @ 10:23 pm PT...





Thanks, CK, I must have been snoozing.... Plus, I think indicting those people this close to the election is illegal... or was.

COMMENT #20 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 10/17/2008 @ 11:13 pm PT...

