ACORN has been involved in voter fraud and intimidation tactics for a long time. Some ACORN members were charged with this in the last election, as well.
The real scandal here is that ACORN is treated as a legitimate, mainstream NPO, when in fact it’s an activist organization wholly in bed with the Democrats. ACORN should not get a nickel of government money.
Of course, the amusing aspect of this is that it’s the left that’s always accusing Republicans of fixing or ‘stealing’ elections, but when it comes down to catching people with their hands actually in the cookie jar, far more often than not it seems to be people trying to rig the election for Democrats.
Obama has some pretty strong ties to ACORN. He’s worked with them lots on the past. Shouldn’t be be distancing himself from this organization by now? ACORN’s antics also helped exacerbate the sub-prime mortgage fiasco, because they have staged protests, filed lawsuits and in general harassed financial institutions who refused to give out mortgages to what they saw as unqualified borrowers.
Would this also be a good place to point out that Barack Obama’s donor database is full of false donors and questionable money from unknown sources in huge amounts?