Matt Yglesias

15 Responses to “McACORN”

1. El Cid Says:
   October 14th, 2008 at 9:22 am

   Someone had to stop a criminal organization like ACORN from thinking they could just register poor and black people to vote. Who do they think they are? Luckily we have the modern, mature, successful Republican Party to stop such evil.

2. ssa Says:
   October 14th, 2008 at 9:43 am

   Wait a little bit and we’ll see a photo of McPhony draped across the arm of Bill Ayers or some other “terrorist.”

   Wait, there’s actually well-publicized video of McPhony with Hagee? Amazing…

   http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/

3. SLC Says:
   October 14th, 2008 at 9:43 am

   Just for the information of the readers of this blog, the allegations of fraud by the Rethuglican Party relative to ACORN have been investigated by investigative reporters working for the Michigan Messenger and are a pile of crap. Attached is a link to Ed Braytons’ latest blog entry on the subject.

   http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/10/facts_about_acorn_and_alleged.php#more

   The punchline from the thread from the thread.

   This is politics, plain and simple. The GOP cannot come up with a single documented example of someone voting twice or voting fraudulently, but they continually raise the specter of voter fraud in order to cover up their longstanding voter suppression efforts. And those efforts, unlike the allegations of voter fraud, have been documented and proven in court many times. Multiple courts have found the RNC and various Republican state committees guilty of illegal voter suppression and issued injunctions against their voter caging programs. And that is the sole purpose of these voter fraud allegations, to distract attention away from all of that.

4. Angellight Says:
   October 14th, 2008 at 9:44 am

   There is just so much hypocrisy in Politics today that most Americans have become cynical, unfortunately. We should be able to have truth and honor in our politics. They should be held to and be of a higher standard than most of us since they have so much power with the possibility for abuse.

5. James Robertson Says:
   October 14th, 2008 at 2:03 pm

   The left wing mindset: Potential vote fraud from machines that could be rigged, bad. Actual vote fraud from left wing activists, ok.

   So long as we’re clear that for Matt and the left, it’s all about ends. The means are irrelevant.

6. pseudonymous in nc Says:
   October 14th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

   So long as we’re clear about things: Jim-Bob White Flight thinks that if you live in a precinct with one voting machine and four-hour lines to vote, you should just move to the suburbs, as long as it’s not too near him and his lawn.

7. James Robertson Says:
   October 14th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

   I continue to chuckle at the people who think I’m part of some “white flight”. I was raised in the suburbs; I live in the suburbs now. I’ve never lived in a city. So long as my neighbors don’t let their property go to heck, I couldn’t care less what they look like, or what God they do or don’t worship. If you want to make a point, make it – but don’t ascribe racist ideas I don’t have to me.

   And – how is my distaste for Acorn’s abuse of voter registration linked in any way, shape, or form to how the votes themselves are tallied? Personally, I’d prefer paper ballots that can be easily scanned by an OCR device – because their also easily counted by hand if said OCR device has problems of any kind, or if a manual recount is called for.

   I dislike the various touch screen, paperless devices that have become common here in Maryland.

8. bemused Says:
   October 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

   Just to be clear, James,

   1. Acorn flagged as problems the registrations that were later used as evidence of “voter fraud”.

   2. Acorn was obliged to turn in the registrations by law.

   3. There is no evidence that any of these fraudulent registrations were ever the basis of VOTER fraud.

   4. The victim of the fraud was Acorn, who paid low income people to work to register actual voters.

   Get it straight.

9. James Robertson Says:
   October 14th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

   bemused,

   The best you could say about Acorn then is that they are massively, massively incompetent. If that’s the vase, please explain why any taxpayer money should go to them.

   And the reason there’s no evidence of voter fraud is that in the urban districts where Acorn pushes in the crap registrations, the urban political machines don’t check very carefully (if at all).

   Matt worries about the non-existant voter intimidation; some of us worry about the fraud, attempted fraud, and chicanery of the urban machines.

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