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ORIGINAL: tacitus

First of all, this is voter *registration* fraud, not voter fraud. It is highly unlikely to make much difference come election time. Second, there is little evidence that this is anything more than ACORN workers defrauding ACORN itself by submitting fraudulent registration forms in order to earn more cash. I believe that, by law, all registration forms submitted to ACORN have to be passed on to the registrar whether or not they are believed to the fraudulent but even then, in many the incidents of fraud it was ACORN itself that identified the bad forms.

I have no doubt there is some fraud going on, but over all, both sides have their black sheep. Black and poor neighborhoods are again being targeted by leaflets claiming that voters with outstanding traffic tickets and other warrants will be arrested at the polls if they turn up, and certainly in the last election there were plenty of examples of Republican illegal push-polling, and I believe it's already started again in places like Oregon.

The bottom line with the ACORN stuff is that there is no evidence of system fraud, and it is estimated that 99% of ACORN submitted registrations are perfectly valid.

If and when McCain loses this election, it won't be because of ACORN.

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ORIGINAL: todd_t

While I agree that any and all voter fraud should be aggressively addressed, this whole ACORN deal stinks of desperation three weeks out from the election.