Reuters has a story on the wires headlined New Curbs on Voter Registration Could Hure Obama.
According to the story, various Republican Legislatures in various states have enacted onerous restrictions on registering to vote, and this will reduce participation by minorities and youth in the upcoming elections. Of course, buried in the story comes this section:
Another factor expected to drive down voter registration totals this year: the absence of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which registered more than 1 million mostly low-income voters in 2008.
Thousands of those registrations were for people who did not exist, submitted by ACORN-hired workers who were paid based on how many names they registered to vote.
The scandal helped lead to the demise of ACORN and inspire some of the anti-fraud laws affecting registration drives this year.
Imagine! The state legislature are concerned because thousands of phony people were registered to vote by ACORN. While Reuters says "thousands", other tallies bring that total to close to 100,000 phony registrations. but if the legislature tries to stop fraudulent registrations, it is discriminatory. What utter BS. Anyone who wants to register to vote in the USA can do so just by walking into the local government office during the appointed hours and bringing ID. Oh, the horror! How can we ask citizens to do that! The truth is that Reuters only sees voter fraud as an issue regarding what it may do to Obama's re-election chances. There is another side to the story. After all it is call voter FRAUD for a reason.
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