Voter-Fraud Allegations Being Used to Delete Voters’ Registrations En Masse
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2008 has already seen a heated contest for the integrity of the vote, with Republicans smearing groups like ACORN that work to register low-income and minority voters, and Democratic supporters accusing the GOP of trumping up claims about voter-fraud. We have seen repeatedly over the last 8 years, reports of major state-run operations, designed to reduce the number of registered voters able to cast ballots on election day, using spurious claims of widespread voter fraud as a justification.
In the years 2002 and 2004, 9 million votes were cast in Ohio, with only 4 instances of illegitimate voters attempting to cast ballots. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which is supposed to help implement its provisions, were designed to give the impression that the federal government has, since 2000, taken care of all the potential risks to the legitimacy of the actual voting process, while in fact, both were used to spread to all states tactics that were used in Florida in 2000 to disenfranchize tens of thousands of legitimately registered voters.
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The fact is: in every instance where the community organizing group ACORN —the largest charitable organization in the country working to help low-income citizens organize and obtain the services they need— handed in registration cards with questionable names on them, it was ACORN that notified authorities. It hires individuals for specific voter-registration drives, and those individuals, in some cases, have defrauded ACORN by taking payment while handing in phony registrations.
By law, any registration form filled out must be handed in, and it is local election officials who must make the decision about its authenticity. The allegations against ACORN refer to cases in which ACORN has never been implicated as a conspirator and in which ACORN was the victim of fraud. Under the laws of most states, the registrations themselves are not fraudulent, just “incomplete” or “inaccurate”, and they have no effect on the later process of actual voting.
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