ACORN

[Cicero]

Why pay by the viable registration? Because it's standard practice and procedure. It makes them work harder to target real (seeming) voters as well. It's true, the more numbers you have the more viable voters you have collected. You do go for numbers because the chances of hitting a real registrant is greater. But yes, they are paid per verifiable registration. ACORN had done one better and to their credit: Pay by the hour!! Less bullshit that way. ACORN is also probably also paid a commission for viable registrations. Typical in the bizz.

The point of all of it is, is to find out who the voters are, and their demographics, and bother them to vote until voting is over. The mission of every campaign is to get the real numbers and where the real voters are so you can develop basic statistics of probability. Then work with those numbers to develop your campaign.

All registrations are verified. Every single one. Obscuring the numbers or flooding the numbers would mean that you don't even know your own outcome, but you have upset a process. What good does it do to obfuscate the facts that you, yourself, NEED dearly?

Ok someone else answer these questions. I'm too bent to keep this up. Let's think things through. All the way through.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Cicero

All registrations are verified. Every single one. Obscuring the numbers or flooding the numbers would mean that you don't even know your own outcome, but you have upset a process. What good does it do to obfuscate the facts that you, yourself, NEED dearly?

The way I understand it is they are flooding the system needlessly and knowingly. Motivation? Only they can answer that. As I said before, I believe they are motivated by the income. Why elese would you knowingly register the same dude 72 times? Why in the world would you register the homeless guy living under a bridge with a mental illness? (figuratively). Most of these people don't know who is running for office, other than one is a young black guy and the other an old white guy. I guess if we start to see ACORN driving the homeless dude from under the bridge to actually vote we may have an answer. I don't know. But something is obviously afoot.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

The way I understand it is they are flooding the system needlessly and knowingly. Motivation? Only they can answer that. As I said before, I believe they are motivated by the income. Why elese would you knowingly register the same dude 72 times? Why in the world would you register the homeless guy living under a bridge with a mental illness? (figuratively). Most of these people don't know who is running for office, other than one is a young black guy and the other an old white guy. I guess if we start to see ACORN driving the homeless dude from under the bridge to actually vote we may have an answer. I don't know. But something is obviously afoot.

For the 57th time, how can they be motivated by money when they dont' get more money for registering more applicants.

I give up.
Jesus H Christ.

I'm gonna go whine somewhere about how no one is telling me for whom to vote.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

For the 57th time, how can they be motivated by money when they dont' get more money for registering more applicants.

I give up.
Jesus H Christ.

I'm gonna go whine somewhere about how no one is telling me for whom to vote.

Did you not even read my response???

"I don't know. But something is obviously afoot."