There seem to be many things going on in the world now that the elections are coming up. some of those things include vote-suppression and the ACORN scandal. These things are said to be taking away peoples vote and their voting rights which is something that is very important to people. That is their say or their opinion in this greater society, they get to choose the different things that they feels is good for our country and the candidate that seems to represent these things. What I have to see is if these things are actula scandals.
Currently ACORN is under investigation by the FBI, for vote fraud. They are sending in a bunch of voting registrations of people who have already registered and they are also said to be making up fake names , such as Mickey Mouse. This is said to be a big scandal since the presidential elections are here and now everybody is stressing because they don't want people to win with false votes. The republicans called out Barrack Obama on supporting this group and that he is doing wrong things. The Acorn Organization is turning in a lot of fake registration forms with fake names, which is not good they want a lot of vote but they are not doing it in the right way. Something that Is a little wierd is that MCcain was saying that Obama is not very good since he is a suppoter of ACORN, but he himself was a supporter of this compnany.
MCcain spakes at ACORN rally in 2006
MCcain was also someone who supported the ACORN company, he spoke at one of their rallys as shown in the video above.
Acorn is actually not doing anything wrong the MCcain-Palin Campaign is accusing ACORN of voter fraud but it is actually not, the fraud that has been commited was some voter registration fraud by some of the ACORN employees who just wanted to get paid for work they felt was a little hard to meet. These actions would not actually help fill up the poll ballot boxes.
Acorn was just doin their job it is illegal for them to discard ant registration forms that can only be done by the election officials all that they could do with the suspicious forms was flag them which they did. The NYTimes says: "According to Acorn, most of the forms that are now causing controversy are ones that it flagged and that unsympathetic election officials then publicized."
Factcheck says:
"ACORN also says it cannot simply discard suspicious forms on its own, but is required by law in most states to submit to local election officials all the forms its canvassers bring in. ..... only election officials are legally able to determine the validity of a voter registration application."
So in reality ACORN did not do anything wrong they just did their job. People are making this bigger than it should be it is not a scandal, they just turn in the registration foorms that does not really change the vote that go in the poll ballot boxes.
In the vote-suppression is something that is worse than this supossed ACORN scandal many peoples votes are being cast out for minor things while registering , so they are not getting their voting rights either.Voter-supprresion makes it dificult or impossible for people to vote.
The Huffington Post says,"One of the brightest hopes for the Obama-Biden ticket is that many people will read and act on the advice in RFK, Jr and Palast in their guide to protect their legitimate voting rights. Failing that America is headed toward another election that will see millions of ballots discarded on pseudo-technicalities." That is saying that people should get their vote back, and the peoples voting rights should be protected, because many peoples votes are basically being thrown away.
The help America vote law is something that makes sure that people are not commiting voter fraud, but it actually leads to voter -suppression because if there are any small things that are different on your informationlike on a licencse or something and it is different from the information that the elction officials have then they basically tell the people they cannot vote, that is not good for people.
Sources:
NyTimes : the ACORN story
Fact CHeck: ACORN Accusations
Huffington Post: voter-suppression
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