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[image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Wednesday, October 15, 2008 [image] Charlie Crist [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] defends ACORN. 10/15 09:01 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us
Media Declines To Challenge McCain's Evidence-Free ACORN Charge
TPMMuckraker —
... (Indeed, the whole voter fraud controversy is such baloney that now even Florida's Republican governor Charlie Crist, a big McCain backer in the primaries, felt compelled to throw some water on it, telling reporters yesterday: "I think that there's probably less [fraud] than is being discussed. As we're coming into the closing days of any campaign, there are some who enjoy chaos.'') ...
Squirrelly on ACORN, Part II
Political Punch —
... of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy." Voting experts say that's a bit much. There have been several fraudulent voter registration forms filled out by ACORN employees paid per registration, but registration fraud is quite different from voting fraud. And the notion that this is "maybe destroying the fabric of democracy" is so hyperbolic I don't even know where to begin. In Florida, for instance, GOP Gov. Charlie Crist said, ''I think that there's probably less [fraud] than is being ...
List of Republicans Calling BS on ACORN Voter Fraud Allegations Growing
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... First the Republican Governor of Florida broke with Republican talking points on this ACORN voter fraud business (here's a ...
M.S. Bellows, Jr.: GOP Battle Against ACORN as Much About Financial Deregulation as Voter Registration
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... election but merely to cheat their employer. ACORN itself has reported most of those employees to law enforcement officials, flagging questionable registration forms and urging prosecutors, usually without success, to prosecute the offenders much like WalMart urges the prosecution of its employees who shoplift. But that problem is a minor and manageable one, not representative of ACORN's overall voter registration program -- and everyone who's studied the issue closely, even including Florida's Republican governor, knows that claims of voter fraud are being overblown. The ...
Fighting for Democracy vs Fighting the Spread of Democracy
Open Left - Front Page —
... And the Miami Herald reports that "Crist's Republican Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, said he doesn't think ACORN is committing systematic voter fraud...Like ACORN spokesmen, Browning says the false voter registration forms could be blamed on unethical canvassers or on citizens who themselves fill out fictitious voter cards." About the exaggerated claims of voter fraud, Crist is quoted as saying "As we're coming into the closing days of any campaign, there are some who enjoy chaos.'' ...
