As many of you may have heard, conservatives are throwing a fit over allegations that ACORN has been filing invalid voter registration forms. This controversy is so important to the GOP that John McCain actually mentioned it last night during the debate. Actually, he framed the issue in such apocalyptic terms, saying that ACORN threatened the very fabric of our democracy that I couldn’t help but laugh!
Just so everyone is clear, the allegations ACORN is facing don’t actually constitute “voter fraud.” No fraudulent votes have been cast! These are applications for voters to register with election officials. That’s all. The only thing that happened here was that a few clever college students realized that they could scam a bigger pay check by turning in registration cards for people that didn’t actually exist. Easy money! Until the federal government starts knocking on your door that is!
The truth of the matter is that Republicans are terrified that they will lose this year. And what do you do when you’re running behind in the polls? You try to disqualify some of those votes for your opponent! Republicans hate ACORN for the same reason that they love voter-ID laws: because the people that are disenfranchised tend to vote Democratic!
Oh, and I love how the McCain campaign has called on the Justice Department to investigate these so-called instances of “voter fraud” – not least because as I already mentioned, no fraudulent votes have actually been cast. But I particularly enjoy the irony in calling on the Justice Department, that has faced all kinds of controversy for firing U.S. attorneys who didn’t “investigate” accusations of voter fraud aggressively enough for the Bush administration’s, would be called on to ensure the “sanctity” of our election. Ha! Good on McCain.
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