ACORN

[--Pete]

Hi,

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10762949?s...st_emailed

From that article: "Earlier this year, dozens of voters accused YPM, which had been hired by the California Republican Party, of tricking them into registering as Republicans. The voters said they thought they were signing a petition calling for stiffer penalties for child molesters.

"In 2005, Massachusetts voters made a similar complaint.

"They said a signature-gathering firm that Jacoby was working for as a subcontractor—Arno Political Consultants— duped them into signing an anti-gay marriage petition when they were told they were signing a ballot question about the sale of wine in grocery stores."

That's what happens when you let morons vote. Does anyone really think the people who blindly signed something a complete stranger shoved in their face are responsible enough to determine who should catch dogs, much less who should run the country?

Though I think it's worth repeating that e-voting machines are potentially a bigger problem.

No question about it. I have a friend who is an engineer and a computer programmer. He worked in Texas for a few years and was there for the '04 elections. The same thing happened to him and to his wife. His choices were changed and he had to get an 'official' to help. Now think. If these machines were rigged, then they were rigged by someone not too competent. Someone who had a clue would rig it so that the screen showed the voter's selections, but the tally would go to the person in who's favor the machine was rigged. And done that way, no one would be the wiser short of a statistical analysis. Even if such an analysis were done, there would be no independent evidence and no way to correct the results.

--Pete