It seems to me that ACORN is really the injured party, and yet its the Republicans who’ve been all up in arms about it.
ACORN is a do-gooder organization which aimed to get more poor people registered to vote. Toward that end it hired people to register voters.
The people that it hired either occasionally, or frequently, used phony names to register non-existent people (ie Donald Duck, Tony Romo, Charlie Chan), in order to bump up their registration numbers and thereby get paid more.
There was no way, no how, no chance in hell, for the phony people to actually vote, unless you think a cartoon character - (like Tony Romo ) can actually vote.
Some ACRON workers thereby defrauded ACORN.
Submitting voter registrations with fake names DID violate NV law, so a plea bargain was entered into by ACORN.
The conduct did not rise to “VOTER FRAUD” though because votes were not cast by those fictitious people. How do I know that? Because no NV election officer has ever made such an assertion.
ACORN pled guilty to a criminal violation of election law in Nevada for illegally compensating their registration collectors.
That wouldn’t have weeded out the dopey “How can an organization be guilty of a crime?” objections, but it might have deflected a bunch of other stuff.
And that’s why this thread disappointed so many people. It’s what we expect of Dio, Gonzomax, and now Le Jaqualope, and it’s why they have no credibility. When they post a link everyone knows it will lead around in a circle.
You got so wrapped up in this you linked to Fox News of all places, and to an article that lied in the title.
As a result we’ve not choice but to censure you for sinking so low.
Your link goes to Yahoo Buzz, true enough, but the story in question is from Fox Nation, content and headline both. That would seem to be the relevant factor, not which news aggregation site you pointed to.
Apparently so. The organization pleaded guilty to the charge.
Prior to the guilty plea, ACORN had stated that the two people convicted for the plan were told not to run the incentive program. One could argue, I suppose, that ACORN is now pleading guilty to help deal with their other legal issues (the bankruptcy) and because it is relatively small potatoes so the cost of fighting it outweighed any benefit a now defunct group could have. But until I see some actual evidence that they were told not to run it, I have no reason to doubt their guilty plea.
And, as an additional aside, Buselink is apparently challenging the constitutionality of the Nevada law she pleaded no contest to. I’m not sure how far along the appeals process the case is. General counsel for ACORN made sure to state that the guilty plea in no way means that they admit the constitutionality of the statute.
The fact this thing is a major issue is inane, though. And both sides in this thread are so incredibly petty it’s sad.
In other words, you know you can’t back up your assertion and have decided to run away from it. ACORN was a non-partsian organization. That’s a fact, no matter what Fox News tells you to think.
But you knew that the story was from Fox News, Bricker. Now you’re trying to mislead people again. You had to have known the story was from Fox, because you copied/pasted text from the article itself in your OP.
Damn, man, admit that you were so overjoyed at seeing “ACORN guilty” that you allowed your common sense and honesty to take a backseat to your gloating, and be done with it. Stop digging yourself deeper into the liar hole.
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