Arghghghgh... voter registration fraud

[davidjhorrell]

http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=8ac173fd-0abe-421a-011e-5ce7dfcf561e&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

Stuff like this worries me. What are the chances that * and co. will seize on this to reverse the election result?

[bobbyboucher]

1. Who is paying to register voters?

Are any Democratic groups?

[crispini]

8. Article says ACORN

"Some of the registration drive workers earn $2 per application or about $10 an hour. One woman admitted to forging three people's names on about 40 voter registration applications. Kym Cason says she was helping her boyfriend earn more money from a get-out-the-vote organization called ACORN or Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. "

a left-leaning group.

IMO, voter registrars, petition circulators etc should never, EVER be paid, or at least not by the signature / registration. This is stuff that groups should have to get people to volunteer, out of being good citizens. If people aren't willing to volunteer to circulate a petition then it's not a good petition.

[BurtWorm]

2. How would he do that?

:shrug:

[davidjhorrell]

3. Call into doubt the validity of the result...

...c'mon, you know how these guys operate. Whenever you think "no, not even the most awful Republicans would do that", they go and prove you wrong.

[BurtWorm]

6. Of course they're going to do that.

Being the unpopular party that's all they have to go on, making charges about voter fraud. Their MO is to stir up doubt and challenge people's confidence in the system. That's how they "won" Florida.

[expatriot]

4. if someone doen't know if they're registered...

You are suppose to register them again. It is not against the law to register to vote when you are registered to vote. It is against the law to vote twice.

So someone might have registered as Edward J. Smith three years ago and re-registered as Ed J. Smith last week. Is that fraud? The system is suppose to catch these double-applications.

Oh, so we are suppose to stop registering voters because some people are registering fraudulently. No, the problem is with the underfunded Elections and Recorders Dept. around the country.

[aquart]

5. THAT, ducky, is why we keep the electoral college.

It compartmentalizes the problems and no one can control the whole thing.

[crispini]

7. I don't see what the electoral college has to do with it?

since elections are controlled at the county level. presumably, whether or not we got rid of the EC they would still be controlled at the county leve.

[Catfight]

9. The only people committing fraud are Bush and company. Voters

want to vote, this is another attempt from the Right Wing Propaganda Machine to add unneeded skepticism in our voting system. It's probably Rove and his buddies signing people up deliberately to commit voter fraud to raise unnecessary concern. It's so pathetically typical of Rove. And you might be one of his little evil disciples posting these pathetic post to get DU'rs all worked up over nothing. The only thing DU'rs are worried about is Diebold and an absence of a paper trail because Bush stole the last election yet amazingly Jeb Bush didn't do a damn thing to prevent it this time.

IMHO

[davidjhorrell]

10. I gotta say

I do love being told I'm working for Rove. Is there a DU rule that anyone with less than 1000 votes must be a Freeper in disguise?

[Catfight]

11. if I tell you I have to kill you! The fact is, Rove is so sneaky and

subversive you just don't know who to trust anymore. We need a test of some sort...not a global test, not an internetSSsssss test but a DU test!LOL