This is all part-and-parcel of the Democratic game plan that’s been underway since, well, the last election cycle. Many on the left have convinced themselves that W “stole” the last two elections, by hacked voting machines, by Diebold machines deliberately flipping votes and/or underreporting them, by suppression of minority votes, organized stealing/shredding ballots, etc, etc.
While it may seem harmless, it’s been obvious (to me, anyway), that these conspiracy theorists have used this to justify their own “make up the vote” campaign over the last couple of years – especially in Ohio, and Florida – it’s only fair, they say, considering the “theft” of the last two elections. (I have family members who are part of the fascist-left, move-on/Daily Kos crowd, so I’ve heard plenty on the subject from them.)
As far as ACORN goes, save the patronizing attitudes, you know we all get that phony registrations aren’t the same as phony votes. But that’s a bit like saying you’re not guilty of burglary, because you only broke into the house, but haven’t stolen anything yet.
The question is, how many of those phony registrations will actually attempt to vote? 0? 100,000?
If I wanted to, I’d have little difficulty in voting 20 or 30 times in the next election. This, of course, would require me to register 20 or 30 times first. Multiply “me” by 5,000 other people in my state, I think we could swing an election.
In any event, ACORN acts as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic party, and should *not* receive taxpayer funding, and given their demonstrated ineffectiveness and corruption, shouldn’t be allowed to register anyone. I guarantee you that their registration efforts are completely partisan in nature and focus, and spends 100% of their time attempting to register likely Democratic voters; you’re simply not going to find them doing registrations at, say, a military base.
If it’s determined that there’s an organized conspiracy among *any* group to dilute legitimate votes, by false votes, paid-for votes, ineligible votes, or deliberately miscounting votes, then if RICO doesn’t apply, then Civil Rights laws should — on the order of 300 million counts of Conspiring to Violate Civil Rights, one count per citizen.
Start convicting people on charges like *that*, with similarly terrifying prison sentences / fines, I think we’ll get this in order quickly.
