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What's the point of smearing ACORN if the valid registrations that ACORN turned in still count? That's what I've been asking myself as the orchestrated GOP smear spreads from one swing state to another.
 Last Tuesday, Las Vegas police raided ACORN headquarters. It was a carnival sideshow, a photo op with no substance, meant to compete on the nightly news with the presidential debate. (How can you believe anything Obama says? He used to work with these crooks.)
The big lies about ACORN have started in Ohio now, and the Saturday Post-Dispatch chronicled the spread of the smear to our state. Republican 'voter fraud' allegations are absolutely bogus.
Here's the lowdown on ACORN. They screwed up in 2004 by not checking the registration cards their paid workers turned in. A few of those paid workers wanted to be paid more than they deserved, so they made up bogus cards. Now by the way, the only people who got screwed as far I can tell that year was ACORN itself--it paid those jackasses for work that was disallowed--because it's not as if anybody turned up to vote as a consequence of the faked cards. And even if they had, they'd have been disallowed since local boards of election check the info on the cards.
Some voter fraud. ACORN was out of pocket for registrations that did the Democrats no good. You'd think the Republicans would be cheering.
Acorn photo used under a Creative Commons license from Flickr user MartinLaBar.
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When Shirley Preiss was born in Kentucky in 1910, the state did not yet issue birth certificates, and women had not been granted suffrage.
