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| Election officials reject almost a third of Acorn's new registrants. |
| 2008-10-27 |
| The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- or Acorn -- the troubled left-wing activist group, has new headaches. Last week Michael Slater, head of its Project Vote, admitted that some 400,000 of its claimed 1.3 million newly registered voters were rejected by election officials as either duplicates or fraudulent -- i.e. it doesn't sound as if Acorn's vaunted "quality control" efforts were all that effective. Some reasons why may be exposed next week in a lawsuit filed by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania in state court. The Web site PolitickerPA reports that Anita Moncrief, an Acorn worker in Washington D.C. from 2005 to 2008, will testify that the group engaged in "minimal to nonexistent" checking of its voter registration work during her time with Project Vote. The Republican suit, filed by Pittsburgh attorney Heather Heidelbaugh, demands that the Pennsylvania Secretary of State follow federal law requiring that first-time voters using an absentee ballot show some form of identification. It also seeks to have Acorn turn over its voter registration lists, identify registrants who signed up fraudulently and instruct them not to vote. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Registration should be done no later than 30 days prior to an election date. Twenty days prior every new registered voter should receive a notice to appear for jury duty 10 days later. Those who don't appear are stricken from the rolls. Those who don't show up for the summons but do show up to vote should be permitted to vote, but also issued a warrant for failure to appear. They can discuss the particulars with the judge. Those filing a registration at the polling place on the day of election also receive a notice to report for duty within a week [with their vote held till they show]. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-10-27 16:31 |
| #2 No, Glenmore. Half of the remainder were either registration forms for those already registered, or for those who'd changed addresses, so they don't count either. Additionally, this does not count rejections of those registered by ACORN previous to January 2008, or those yet to be rejected on closer inspection. I imagine that first third are the "Mickey Mouse" and 72-forms-for-the-same-person registrations, whereas a significant number of the final third will turn out to have addresses that are really shops or vacant lots, or those with someone else's Social Security number. This will make no difference in areas like New Orleans and Chicago, where it's a tradition to have 150% of the population registered, but elsewhere the election boards have got the bit between their teeth, and will continue checking registrations after November 4th. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-10-27 11:27 |
| #1 That still leaves 900,000 unrejected - actually quite an impressive number. How many of these should have also been rejected? We'll never know. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-10-27 08:10 |