ACORN

[Cicero]

Merc just likes it when I have the angry look.

Agreed Merc. You do not know. There's compromise for you, lowering my high standards just to meet yours.

Thank you I feel better.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Cicero

Merc just likes it when I have the angry look.

Agreed Merc. You do not know. There's compromise for you, lowering my high standards just to meet yours.

Thank you I feel better.

Your high standards?

[TheMercenary]

A nice little list of ACORN's accomplishments.

http://www.rottenacorn.com/activityMap.html

[Cicero]

Well this discussion would not be an example of it. Do the math. And that's MEOW!! to you, sir. humph. *turns up nose at Merc

Bom-chicka-mao-mao.

[TheMercenary]

Ok, whateva... I guess I am just not telling you what you want to hear. I thought it was a pretty good discussion.

[Shawnee123]

You're not telling ME what I want to hear. That raht thar is funny, I don't care who ya are. [/mimic]

[Happy Monkey]

So the ACORN watchdog site found one (1) instance of a fraudulent voter who was registered by ACORN (Ohio 2007). Scary!

And Minnesota 2004 emphasizes the fact that they are required to turn in all registrations they get.

[TheMercenary]

Yea, I can't think of a single reason they have been in the headlines in the past month. Not one.

[Cicero]

I can think of a reason, try: false propaganda.

Also see: Blame third party contractor for doing what they are supposed to, then make it seem irregular because people are not aware of the procedures.

If you don't like those reasons here's another one: Spin. Spin.

Hey did you hear that ACORN went out and collected registrations? Oh yea. That's a bfd. Did you know they let a tranny try to register? bfd. Did you know felons tried to register? bfd.

Happens allll the time. Tons of people scratch their names on clipboards all the time. It could be anybody!! bfd.

[classicman]

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.

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I wasn't sheeshing at you, glatt. I was sheeshing at the amazing events I keep witnessing over and over: the "prove it prove it prove it" "where did you hear that?" then when presented with actual articles other than WHAT THEY read ON THE CELLAR the quintessential moderate ignores it...then starts "prove it prove it prove it" "where did you hear that" shit all over again.
It's gotten to the point it makes me sick to my stomach to read anymore.
Don't ask for information you either won't process, can't process, or will ultimately ignore.
I thought I was the Queen of Denial. I got nuttin' on The Moderate.
I fucking tried.

Why am I not surprised? Another cheap shot attack that you yourself criticize others for taking when I wasn't even in the fucking conversation. I shut up a long time ago because I didn't want to hear your kool-aid drinkin' socialist bullshit anymore. Why please tell me Why did you bring it up again?

Oh nevermind - just put me back on ignore like I just did you - ktxbai.

[Shawnee123]

Oooh, I see there's a post there...is there whining involved, because I hit ignore a long time ago.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Oooh, I see there's a post there...is there whining involved, because I hit ignore a long time ago.

Nice.

[classicman]

Interesting -- I can see the post since Merc quoted it even though I have her on ignore.

[classicman]

Looks like some people don't need ACORN to get involved... maybe too many.

Six Alabama counties have more enrolled voters than people of voting age

Friday, October 17, 2008

KIM CHANDLER

MONTGOMERY - Six Alabama counties have more people on their voting rolls than they do people of voting age, according to voter registration numbers and U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

The curious statistic could be the result of a surge in new registrations added to voter rolls that have not been purged of people who moved, said local election officials. But the state’s top elections chief said Thursday she’s concerned that bloated rolls could leave opportunity for Election Day fraud.

“I can’t say it’s impossible that 100 percent of adults in five or six counties are registered to vote. But it is improbable,” Secretary of State Beth Chapman said.

Chapman said she has asked her staff to take a closer look at the county registrations.

The counties that have more people on the voting rolls than they do voting-age residents, according to a News analysis, were Conecuh, Greene, Lowndes, Perry, Washington and Wilcox.

The highest percentages were in Greene and Perry counties. Both had more people on the voting rolls than voting-age residents, even when only the active voter list was taken into account, and not the inactive list. Under state law, people who don’t vote for four years are moved to an inactive voter list. Inactive voters are removed from the rolls if they don’t vote in two consecutive federal elections and don’t respond to attempts to contact them by mail.

Greene County had 7,540 voters on its rolls in September, according to registration figures from Chapman’s office. But the county has only 6,834 adults 18 and older, according to 2007 estimates from the Census Bureau.

Perry County had 8,517 voters on its rolls in September. The county has 7,635 adults 18 and older, according to 2007 estimates from the Census Bureau.

Perry County Board of Registrars Chairwoman Lucy Kynard said she wasn’t sure why registration would outpace the population estimate. Kynard said the rolls are updated regularly, such as removing voters who have died or registered elsewhere.

The county has had a surge in registrations for both the presidential race and a hotly contested mayoral race. Earlier this year, the district attorney in Perry County asked the FBI to investigate an unusually high turnout and absentee voting in the June primary…

The counties with 100 percent registration are some of Alabama’s least populous, so an error in the population estimate or a few extra voters on the rolls would have a bigger impact statistically than in larger counties.

Chapman said even a small problem on the rolls is still a problem. Some elections in the state have been decided by fewer than half a dozen votes, she pointed out.

Counties across Alabama have been seeing unusually high voter registration in recent months, testimony to the interest in the Nov. 4 presidential election. The last day to register to vote in the election is Oct. 24.

[classicman]

Coincidentally, the self-same Kim Chandler filed this article with the Birmingham News only yesterday:

ACORN not active in Alabama
Insufficient staff cited
Thursday, October 16, 2008
KIM CHANDLER

MONTGOMERY - Controversial voter registration group ACORN has not been active in Alabama this election season, a spokesman said.

The Birmingham office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, is closed. Alabama has not been one of the two dozen states where the group pushed to sign up voters in advance of the 2008 election, ACORN Communications Director Charles D. Jackson said.

“We don’t have the staff in Alabama to do that,” Jackson said…

Mind you, this is according to an ACORN spokesman. However, it would appear that the phones at the Alabama ACORN offices have been disconnected.

But ACORN may have closed their offices after they felt that their work there was done.

In any case, isn’t it curious that a reporter would first check to see if ACORN is active in their state before reporting a story about suspect voter registration?

Apparently they can't blame this one on ACORN - There isn't anyone there - lol.