Just so you guys realize, much of the ACORN issue was misreported by Fox who is actually the only network that seems to be making a big stink over this. The number thrown around was that ACORN had turned in 5,000 registrations in one bunch, and about 2,100 of them were fraudulent. But what they did not mention is that those 5,000 that they turned in were actually 5,000 that they had put aside in a special category under "possible fraud". Those registrations had actually been flagged by ACORN as suspected fraud. And of course, about 40+% of them were.

There is a much larger issue here with legitimate voters being purged from the voting databases. In 2000, over 95,000 Florida voters were purged from the databases, most of them minorities that happened to be registered Democrats. Following the election, the NAACP sued the state of Florida, and in 2003 the parties agreed to a settlement which included Florida restoring over 90,000 of those people as registered voters. This was clearly fraud and is what caused Bush to win the election. This idea that the claims that Bush stole the election had something to do with hanging chads or a few hundred votes is misinformation. If voters had all been allowed to vote, Gore would have won Florida by over 50,000 votes. It appears that the same thing is happening this year in many states.

There is also another illegal thing going on in Virginia. The Democrats have gone through the effort of registering many new voters there, most of them young people including many students. Apparently Republican officials got ahold of the lists of student voters, most of whom are Democrats and Obama supporters (young people seem to be overwhelmingly supporting Obama), and have sent out mailings to them telling them that if they register to vote in the district where their school is, then their parents will not be able to claim them as dependents on their tax return and they will not be covered by their parents health plan. Apparently these claims have been very effective and many of these students have withdrawn their registrations. The problem is that what the Republicans have put in that letter is simply not true. This is the kind of thing people should go to jail for.

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