I was with you up until “…at no point is ACORN guilty of anything but occasionally hiring workers who try to scam them.” It’s true in a criminal liability sense, but not in the broader use of the word guilty. ACORN is guilty of the extremely lax management practices that encourage such fraud to happen.
The organization does not, in other words, do anything effective to discourage such fraudulent shortcuts, and indeed encourages them. I agree it’s not the same level of harm that would accompany a plot to actually cast multiple fake votes, but it creates an environemtn where an obviosu next step would be casting multiple fake votes. It should be stopped.
ACORN has already initiated a wide internal review of their processes, which in my view is an absolutely appropriate reaction to these disclosures. They’ve promised that the results of that review, and the changes they make, will be fully disclosed. I think that’s the correct approach for them to take.
Do you disagree?