ACORN was not defunded because of fraud. It was defunded because of the O'Keefe hit. I mean, maybe you can somehow create a legitimate timeline that shows how prosecutions in 2010 caused Congress to do something in 2009, but I'm skeptical.
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ACORN was not defunded because of fraud. It was defunded because of the O'Keefe hit. I mean, maybe you can somehow create a legitimate timeline that shows how prosecutions in 2010 caused Congress to do something in 2009, but I'm skeptical.
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The Almighty
Exactly right. In fact, the investigation turned up exactly ZERO incidences of criminality.
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Darla
Actually the Justice Department has been unable to find these cases of voter fraud you are so sure occurred. So yes, that is correct. And "all the registration fraud" is hyperbole on your part. Considering the years of ACORN's operation and how many legitimate voters they registered, a few bad apple employees submitting phony names, which ACORN FLAGGED (I notice how you didn't want to touch that but you guys never do) is nothing. In fact, the non-partisan League of Women Voters has had the same thing happen. They handle it in the same proper legal manner ACORN did - flag the names but submit them anyway as required by law.
KNow why nobody cares? They are not viewed as an organization mainly registering black people. That's the only difference, sorry.
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Darla
Two words: Shirley Sherrod
Nope, just spineless turds.
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Darla
It's so funny when the stone cold drooling KKK types suffer a major thread fail they send in SF to pretend he's got legit info.
But he doesn't.
But he doesn't.
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The Almighty
So you think all those 2010 convictions came from events in 2010? lol...
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Darla
Anyway, not one case of actual voter fraud was ever found. ACORN was cleared.
All voter registration groups suffer this sort of thing. It's a small part of it, and they mostly have legitimate registrations. When it occurs that a bad apple who is just a lazy worker (nothing more nefarious than that) submits phony names, a lot of the times it's something like Mickey Mouse, no kidding, for real. No one is ever going to show up to attempt to vote under that name. There is a world of difference between voter registration fraud and voter fraud. And ACORN flagged the suspicious names.
And yes, this was a racist hit job, sorry.
All voter registration groups suffer this sort of thing. It's a small part of it, and they mostly have legitimate registrations. When it occurs that a bad apple who is just a lazy worker (nothing more nefarious than that) submits phony names, a lot of the times it's something like Mickey Mouse, no kidding, for real. No one is ever going to show up to attempt to vote under that name. There is a world of difference between voter registration fraud and voter fraud. And ACORN flagged the suspicious names.
And yes, this was a racist hit job, sorry.
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Darla
I think people have heard so much about ACORN (I am not speaking of the obvious racists here, they want to believe, they come right out and say - it's inaccurate? who cares!) that they can't believe there's nothing there. It must be a loony left conspiracy that there's nothing there.
After all - the Democrats voted to defund ACORN TOO! After all, I heard it on all the news shows! And I don't watch FOX!
Yeah, that's called institutional racism my friends. Instead of racing around trying to prove it MUST BE TRUE I READ ABOUT IT!!!!!! think on that. Do your soul and your mind some good and think on that.
I also have to tell ya - I find the idea that the corporatist Dems are dying to register urban blacks to be hysterical. Ya'll have heard of primaries right? Yeah. IBM has as its slogan: T H I N K
So few do.
After all - the Democrats voted to defund ACORN TOO! After all, I heard it on all the news shows! And I don't watch FOX!
Yeah, that's called institutional racism my friends. Instead of racing around trying to prove it MUST BE TRUE I READ ABOUT IT!!!!!! think on that. Do your soul and your mind some good and think on that.
I also have to tell ya - I find the idea that the corporatist Dems are dying to register urban blacks to be hysterical. Ya'll have heard of primaries right? Yeah. IBM has as its slogan: T H I N K
So few do.
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Sweet Jane
It doesn't matter that they were cleared. The baseless political attack by the right wing propaganda machine worked. Acorn was completely cleared here in Ohio of wrong doing but far to late as they were defunded and now no longer exist. Acorn was just another right wing bogey man but they used it to great affect at poor Acorns expense.Anyway, not one case of actual voter fraud was ever found. ACORN was cleared.
All voter registration groups suffer this sort of thing. It's a small part of it, and they mostly have legitimate registrations. When it occurs that a bad apple who is just a lazy worker (nothing more nefarious than that) submits phony names, a lot of the times it's something like Mickey Mouse, no kidding, for real. No one is ever going to show up to attempt to vote under that name. There is a world of difference between voter registration fraud and voter fraud. And ACORN flagged the suspicious names.
And yes, this was a racist hit job, sorry.
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The Almighty
So again, the corrupt organization had countless convictions of registration fraud, but you think that none of it turned into voter fraud because they couldn't find it? LMAO... ok.
You want to scream racism, while ignoring that the majority of Dems also voted against funding ACORN. You also want to ignore the fact that it was the Dems that controlled both the House and the Senate (with supermajorities) at the time. So do explain how those bills came up for a vote.
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The Almighty
So in other words you have no response except a feeble attempt to lump Yurt and I together?
Or are you suggesting that Congress didn't know about any of those cases in late 2009 when they passed the defunding in the Dem led House and Dem led Senate? That they could only find out about them after the 2010 convictions? Is that what you are implying dung?
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The Almighty
So you too will ignore the convictions of registration fraud that occurred in multiple states? That never happened right?
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Darla
False.
They have about 12.
If that's countless I can only assume you need your fingers to do math?
SmarterthanYou
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how true that is.
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Darla
I'm not screaming. I'm pointing out the racism. One only need to go back and refresh their knowledge of the Shirley Sherrod fiasco to see exactly what happened here.
And in this case you have to add in the fact that few Dems want actual leftists or even actual economic liberals challenging them in the primaries. That's why the DNC always backs the Blue Dog over the progressive challenger. No big mystery here.
And the facts show ACORN did nothing any other voter registration group has not also done, and that they followed the law to the T by flagging any suspicious registrations.
Not one case of voter fraud was found, but if you feellllllll like their must have been, what am I going to do about that? Not much, but I'll continue pointing out ACORN no longer exists because of racism.
BECAUSE OF RACISM. Sorry.
Countless? That's awesome.
The majority of Dems are pants-shitters and the laws came up for a vote an amendments to spending bills that the Dems probably couldn't have stopped if they weren't pants-shitters.
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The Almighty
See, even you can't count them... you stopped at 12... and then just guessed it was 'about' that.