ACORN in Lake County, Indiana: All 2,100 of First 2,100 ACORN Registrations Fraudulent
Every. Single. One.
Lake County, Indiana is a case worth investigating a bit further:
First, let's focus on the word "first". All of the "first 2100" registrations out of some 5000 were fraudulent. CNN purposely glossed over this statistical impossibility to sensationalize the story, which isn't surprising ... but why did we not stop to think how this could have been?
The reason is because ACORN themselves screen the registrations they collect, and they flag and sort out any that are clearly fraudulent, suspicious, or incomplete before turning in
all of them—which they are required to do by law, obviously—into the country registrar. According to at least one blog/site (not one I'm familiar with, so judge bias for yourself), the elections director there clearly
confirmed that ACORN had done just that with their submissions to her office.
The actual truth in this trumped-up issue points heavily toward ACORN having been infiltrated and themselves defrauded by any number of rogue canvassers who sought to turn a quick buck, get paid, get out and maybe just maybe cause a dust-up along the way. At least in this particular case, based on the available information it seems the worst that ACORN itself can be blamed for is having hired these certain individuals without having predicted the fraud that they would later commit.
Second, lest we get too self-righteous about decrying voter fraud ... let's keep looking at Lake County, IN and the opposing question of voter suppression and equal rights:
Late last month, the Republican members of the election board there did their best
to block the opening of early voting centers in the north part of the county, whose population is largely black and/or Democratic, claiming that it was sufficient to have the county seat of Crown Point, which is as much as an hour's drive for northern residents, not to mention predominantly white, be the sole available location for early voting.
One can argue chicken-and-egg, but let's not let half-investigations and carefully stoked mob chants of "ACORN = bad" dominate the conversation without hearing both sides of the story.