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The Republican voter fraud hoax
Donald Duck and the Dallas Cowboys won't steal the election for Obama. Acorn's only crime is registering Democratic
voters
By Brad Friedman, guardian.co.uk
Monday October 13 2008 20.30 BST
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Barack Obama and the Democrats are stealing the election. Massive voter fraud is being carried out, even as we speak, by
their henchmen, known by the innocuous sounding Association for Community Organisations for Reform Now, or Acorn. Clever
bastards.
The only problem? Despite the screaming wall-to-wall coverage of "Democratic voter fraud in 11 swing states" as seen on
Fox News and even the once-respectable CNN, none of it's true. None of it.
In just the last week, we've had a phoney stunt raid in swing state Nevada (where Acorn had been cooperating with officials for months, concerning problem canvassers they'd long ago fired); a
Republican election official in swing state Missouri tell Fox News that she's being beseiged with fraudulent registration forms from Acorn (in a county where they've not done any registration work since August);
a Republican sheriff in swing state Ohio, who, the very next day, suddenly requested the names and addresses of hundreds of early voters (with evidence of exactly zero wrong doing, but lots of
Democratic-leaning college student in the particular county, and John McCain's state campaign chair as a partner in the
investigation); and a screaming front page headline in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post about a guy who claims he was somehow tricked by Acorn into registering 72 times (but read the article closely to note
he says he registered at the same address each time, which, even if true, would allow him - you guessed it - precisely
one legal vote.)
It's an old Republican scam, but it's never been carried out with more zeal than this year. The Republicans have been
putting so much time, money and resources into the propaganda leading up to this over the last four years, we should have expected no less.
As luck would have it, the Democrats have a man who, as an attorney years ago, actually had the temerity to join the US
department of justice in representing Acorn in a successful lawsuit, forcing the state of Illinois to follow the law by
allowing citizens to register to vote at the department of motor vehicles. What a scoundrel.
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