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Close Enough To Honest
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Jesse Taylor CNN lies about ACORN 54 times which is certainly better than, say, a billion.  What I really want an ACORN critic to do is to explain this hypothetical (I’m such a law student): most campaigns and party organizations register voters on their own as well.  Suppose that the Smith County Republican Party gets a bunch of voter registrations, and Voter X gives them a form which bears the name “Brad Pitt”.  Legally, they cannot discard the form.  They cannot simply hold onto the form until after the election, ...

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) Talks Voters, Elections, And Protecting Your Vote
Firedoglake — ... law enforcement officials in violation of internal regulations this close to the election.  Bauer asked that the special prosecutor currently investigating past politicization of such matters, Nora Dannehy, add this to her investigation portfolio.  More on this as we get it.  __________  With the election only 18 days away, and early voting already underway in a number of states, voter concerns and election protection issues keep cropping up.  Including breathless media reports about ACORN and other groups...for the umpteenth election cycle in ...

Fighting for Democracy vs Fighting the Spread of Democracy
Open Left - Front Page — ... coverage became an inadvertent part of a successful strategy to create an unfounded specter of voter fraud and perpetuate the myth that more extreme restrictions were necessary to prevent illegal voting. This year, fewer and fewer reputable news outlets seem to be buying what the GOP is selling. While some histrionic stories have appeared on Fox News (which has mentioned ACORN more often in the past week than it has mentioned either of the vice-presidential candidates) and CNN-both of which have done stories that have been debunked by independent sources ...