So you mean that they are obliged to pass them along regardless? What is that, some kind of law, or something? Jeez, why didn’t anybody mention that?
Yes, elucidator, apparently there is some kind of legal requirement here, that would prevent ACORN workers from just throwing registrations down the nearest storm drain. I mean, I know it sounds crazy, but hey, you heard it from me first! I hope Carol Stream reads my posts!
Doesn’t sound like much of a plan to me. How could they overwhelm McCain’s huge lead like that?
Is there… is there some light at the end of the tunnel?
I feel a strange feeling. It’s like… hope.
Optimist. All that is is the headlight of the Amtrak 251 to Stupidville, population Carol Stream.
It’s unlikely that the explanation can be made any simpler for you, so you should probably just accept your ignorance and move on.
Hey, let me get splatted on the tracks in peace, man.
Speaking of which, very fabric of democracy is in danger of being destroyed by ACORN, according to one John McCain in the debate last night. Not too much hyperbole there, Johnny boy.
He was for ACORN before he was against them. Flip-flopper!
I guess he’d prefer the old days, when Republican organizers could go into primarily Democrat neighborhoods, get people to fill out registration forms, and then toss them in the storm drain on the way back to Repub headquarters. Now THAT’S democracy.
WHY do you people keep engaging Carol Stream? This whole thread hurts my head.
It’s kind of like when you have a toothache, and every time you bite down it hurts. When it stops hurting, you prod it a few times with your tongue just to make sure it’s still injured, and sure enough, it is.
Carol Stream is like a mouth full of hurt teeth, that you compulsively agitate with your tongue. Or something.
They don’t register bogus voters. They solicit voter registrations, and some citizens are providing bogus registration cards. ACORN has to submit every card it receives. There’s no benefit to anyone. Maybe ACORN solicited someone who just filled out a card to be nice, or to flirt with the volunteer. Maybe the ACORN employee is under some sort of pressure to make a certain number, and it isn’t checked whether they are fraudulent or not. It doesn’t matter, because fraudulent registrations can’t be used without matching ID. If one guy registered 73 times, he can’t show up at the polls and flash his ID 73 times. Nobody benefits, other than the fact that they’ll probably get more legit registrations by accepting all registrations. It’s just a dumb bureaucracy that apparently measures its own performance in a dumb way.
The fabric of democracy needs some mothballs of courage to defend it from the silverfish of liberalism.
This is probably useless, but I’ll add my voice to the attempts to explain this simple thing to you.
Some of the many people hired by ACORN on a temporary basis to collect voter registration information were either lazy or incompetent. They turned in bogus information rather than go to the trouble of collecting real information. Once they did that, ACORN had no choice, legally, but to accept the registrations, although they notified the appropriate authorities of the registrations they suspected were bogus.
Now, here’s something I want you to really try hard to grasp: the net effect of this problem is probably fewer people getting to vote, rather than imaginary characters somehow showing up at the polling place and fraudulently voting. If those lazy workers had done their jobs, they would have been turning in registrations of real people; as it is, there are probably people who aren’t registered in some neighborhoods precisely because those workers committed fraud out of laziness.
Brava!
Those dirty sew and sews.
I understand elucidator is out evaluating lampposts for height and public visibility. He’ll be back with the warrant soon. Sit tight.
You know, I was watching this PBS thing about how mama polar bears are having trouble feeding their young, and it got me to thinking…
Round here, there are multiple places where one can register to vote–the DMV, the library, the village hall, the county courthouse, and etc.
Somehow, I don’t think one guy could go to the Carol Stream Library and register 73 times. Why can that guy go to ACORN and do it?