The press release below also mentions the right wing's usual favorite critique of ACORN - that it is perpetrating “voter fraud." No courts have been able to substantiate this outrageous and defamatory claim, and in fact the last time this went to court, in Florida in 2004 , ACORN won a counter-suit. Still, this tidbit has proven to be fantastic grist for the right-wing rumor-mill.
What ACORN actuallyis doing is helping millions of lower income people register to vote (over 210,000 to date in OH), a responsibility the organization takes very seriously, and the very issue that scares, let's face it, Republicans. Republicans would prefer that lower income and minority people stay home on election day. So, they attempt to raise the specter of "voter fraud" where none exists, further eroding trust in the electoral system for people who don't really trust it to begin with. What is ironic - and disgusting - is that attempts to cast ACORN's non-partisan voter registration program as "fraudulently helping the Democrats" is in fact a totally partisan effort to shut ACORN's program down. True fraud, I'm sorry to say, is perpetrated by the GOP. Ever hear of caging?
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Did you happen to see the piece about acorn on CNN last night?
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