ACORN

[Chesspiece_face]

Nope. Try again.

Also look at it another way. If you hear about voter fraud, it may induce you to go and vote to try and offset it.

Or maybe not.

See also the law Bill Clinton signed in 1996. This was a catalyst. A good thing has recently happened, the Supreme Court has upheld some states' requirements for a picture ID, with a liberal judge writing the opinion.

The 2000 election exposed a lot of shortcomings in the voting processes, and it irks me that less has been done to remedy more of them. My largest irritation is the short attention span requirement. I see no reason that the results have to be reported before they are all in.

I can wait for someone to count all of the votes.

Voter fraud is a real issue but Jester isn't incorrect. This whole ACORN thing didn't pop up until right after the NYTimes story about the 8 battleground states which were removing people from the voting rolls in violation of federal law. The lack of factual links that MEAT mentions above as well as the innuendo allows people to conflate the two issues and leave with the impression that they are related and that the people removed from the rolls were part of the ACORN issue.

Edit: it's also notable that this whole ACORN issue was started from investigations by the RNC. not an unbiased organization.

Edit again: To clarify: The RNC investigations started nearly 3 weeks ago. The big media hub-bub didn't happen till after the NYTimes story about voter rolls being purged.