If this report doesn’t stun thoughtful people everywhere, then it’s safe to say that outrage has died. Here’s what the Las Vegas Journal Review is reporting:

State Department of Corrections officials say the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or ACORN) was using convicted criminals to conduct registration drives.

Corrections officials say they were work release inmates and was brought to their attention at the end of July. At that time corrections officials told organizers to immediately stop using the inmates.

What guarantee is there that these convicted criminals won’t attempt to vote using some of the phoney names that they ‘registered’? I certainly won’t trust them to do the right thing. Here’s the article’s closing paragraph:

State investigators are looking into whether names on ACORN’s voter rolls are fake. The group claimed to have signed up around 80,000 low income Nevada residents.

All summer and fall, we’ve heard that the registration numbers for Democrats have jumped dramatically. With convicted criminals working on voter registration drives, why shouldn’t we think that these registration numbers aren’t up dramatically in part because of ACORN’s activities?

I’d further suggest that state investigators not wonder whether “names on ACORN’s voter rolls are fake.” I’d rather that they wonder how many “names on ACORN’s voter rolls are fake.” It isn’t a matter of if. It’s a matter of how extensive the fraud is.

This Washington Times article speaks volumes about the other corrupting influence ACORN brings to the table:

Mr. Boehner explained yesterday why the influence that ACORN has on politics and policy during these gloomy economic times is not prudent. “Sources of federal funding through the Department of Housing and Urban Development or any other agency must be stopped,” he said. “Contracting for services between candidates for federal office and ACORN, as Senator [Barack] Obama has done, must end. Now that the taxpayers own Fannie Mae, any funding from Fannie Mae’s nonprofit foundation to ACORN must stop.”

More to the point, Mr. Boehner said: “ACORN spent decades promoting the housing policies that brought America’s economy to the brink, and similarly over the years has committed fraud on our system of elections, making American voters question the fairness and accuracy of the exercise of their most fundamental right under the Constitution. Now it is time to cut off ACORN before it grows even more destructive.”

Not only is ACORN in the voter fraud business but they lobbied Congress for the Community Reinvestment Act, which eventually pushed banks into giving sub-prime loans to people who couldn’t afford them. They did this by pushing the euphemism of affordable housing.

It’s time for ACORN to be disbanded and for those members of ACORN that filled out fraudulent voter registration applications be sent to prison. Politicians attempting to protect ACORN should be punished at the ballot box.

It’s time that we eliminated this type of corruption because it totally undermines the starting point for democracies.

Technorati Tags: ACORN, Community Reinvestment Act, HUD, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Voter Fraud, Corruption, John Boehner, Election 2008

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

1. Outraged? Yes Stunned and/or surprised? No

   Comment by T A Gray — October 10, 2008 @ 4:42 pm