ACORN

[Taem]

And because from this thread it still wasn't comletely clear what the exact problem was (although I had an opinion) I post a link (yessss) http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/15...ters/index.html
Which in my opinion says what I thought already. There is a huge problem with voter registration in general which makes it apparently very easy to commit fraud. In Ohio they want to investigate this and try to create a better system. Many people however think (as somebody in this thread remarked as well) that it is also a plan from the republicans to try and cancel as many registrations as possible because they expect many of the new voters will vote democrat.
So two things: 1 apparantly it is still a big step for poor people to go and vote (if this is their own fault, or if it is indeed really difficult I don't know) and if an organisation as ACORN steps in, that is fine with me (as long as they only use eligible voters of course) and 2. There is registration system not suitable for a modern country. If frauding is as easy as just registering in two or more district I can imagine (and still I don't approve) that many people will do this. And a government has to appreciate the problem and understand that many people will fraud (if there is one thing that we always agree on here is that people are inherently selfish etc).

That's what I've been saying from the get-go, but this thread took on a life of it's own after the first couple of posts, however I'm used to that on the LL:lol:.

My main question, even before this last debate between McCain and Obama, was how Obama was supposidly tied in with ACORN, and I still don't know... I know ACORN is corrupt, I know Obama had something to do with ACORN, but I I'm not sure how that effects his now, if at all.