Educating About ACORN
Thursday, 23 October 2008 Clay Burell 
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Decrepit Old Fool shares this video setting the record straight about ACORN, and the Republican Party’s history of attacking voter registration drives among the working classes with the admitted purpose of discouraging large voter turnouts:
DOF concludes with this paragraph containing links worth checking out:
The GOP tries to discredit ACORN every election cycle. The last thing they want is poor people voting. If you wanna talk about election fraud, look at voter roll purges and polling complications. And read Blogula Raisa’s Now THIS is voter registration fraud.
–but his entire post summarizes the under-reported details of the ACORN ploy in a bullet list worth reading.
A democracy is a terrible thing to waste with this stunt, which offers no solutions to our country’s problems and, worse still, breeds a divisiveness that adds one more problem to the future.
It’s exciting to see so many people turning onto democracy now anyway, despite the efforts of the losing McTeam.
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No. 1 — October 23rd, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Clay,
A local city wanted to move one of their polling places from a college campus to a downtown location much less convenient for the undergrads. This school has a lot of students from middle and upper class families, and they raised a loud, public outcry, ultimately forcing the city to reconsider the move.
For voters or potential voters with less savvy and political pull, the outcome would probably have been quite different.
Groups like ACORN work to give a voice to the voiceless. A democracy requires this.
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No. 2 — November 12th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Clay,
Thanks for sharing this video. I’ll be sending it to my arch-republican father. I’ve been listening to him for weeks about ACORN.
Charlie
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No. 3 — March 6th, 2009 at 3:18 am
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