Although 'Dick Davis' is an apt description, he actually goes by Rick Davis.

Oh, I think the right understands the difference between registration fraud and voter fraud just fine, they're just trying to make sure that the voters get the two mixed up. If we had a functioning media this would be a non-issue, but if we had a functioning media we wouldn't be in this situation to begin with..

the right doesn't understand the difference between registration fraud and voter fraud.

And that includes CNN, which has been calling it voter fraud for the last two days.

I am confused. How was ACORN going to profit from the original package? How was that changed in the second legislation, which McCain also called in to help with?

More information please!

Well I guess we now know why the McCain campaign wants to talk about anything but economy. When they do it's a garbled mess or buzzwords and contradictions.

ACORN is GOP-speak for "voter fraud."

In a way this seems to be the preparatory/prefatory narrative to combat the anti-story about 'election theft' which will follow from the "inexplicable" 'selection' of Bombin' John and Scary Sarah to occupy the highest offices in the land, next month...

That McCain feller blowed that bailout up real good. He's a regular BAILOUT TERRORIST!

Get the facts:

The Truth About ACORN's Voter Registration Drive
by Bertha Lewis and Steve Kest
October 10, 2008
CommonDreams.org

Bertha Lewis is a senior organizer for ACORN. Steve Kest is ACORN's Executive Director.

Excerpt:

Election Day is less than a month away, and our efforts to make sure that low-income and minority voters have a voice and vote on November 4th are in full swing. Unfortunately, just as we've seen in previous election cycles, the more success we have in empowering these voters, the more attacks we have to fend off from partisan forces making unfounded accusations to disparage our work and help maintain the status quo of an unbalanced electorate. We want to take this opportunity to separate the facts of our successes from the falsehoods of our attackers.

This rhetoric from the corporate-sponsored right-wing propaganda machine is nothing new -- they attack ACORN every two years. It is an ongoing part of the Republican Party's efforts to disenfranchise working class voters, particularly urban African-American working class voters.

ACORN ... the new Willie Horton.

As if any further proof was needed that certain repugnuts create their own reality and expect us to live there with them.

What ship of fools.

I was wondering what advantage it is to ACORN to have phony voter registrations. Then I realized that GOTV registration drives usually employ people who are "incentivized" by the number of people they register. It's easier to fake voter registrations using dead/phony people and collect your $ than it is to actually walk the streets or sit in front of a grocery store and register real people. Even then, the benefits of getting more people to participate in the electoral process far outweighs the relatively small number of bogus registrants.

Why do Republicans not want people to vote? Why do they hate the principles that the United States of America were founded on?

Wow! At this rate, if the election goes to Obama, I foresee the bulk of the personnel in McCain's campaign as used car salespeople, or better yet, typewriter salespeople in the computer age. Either profession demands skills in putting lipstick on a pig day after day, and at this juncture in the campaign, we can see McCain's personnel already qualified to carry out such skills! -Kevo

The right understands the difference between registration fraud and voter fraud perfectly well. They are just trying to make sure that no one else does.

Steve, you should try to tease out the argument for dumb readers like me who can't see how these duplicate registrations are a real danger to the election process, other than just increasing the wage of the signature gatherers? I don't even see the right wingers offering up a logical connection between bogus signatures and potential fraud. Just how exactly is "Colonel Sanders" gonna vote, anyway?

I'm serious here. Nobody wants bogus voter registrations, but is there a serious argument to be made for why this could produce fraud? I'm guessing not, otherwise I'd've seen it.

Bridge. To. Perdition.

On a campaign conference call this afternoon, Dick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, said McCain deliberately "blew up" the original bailout package in order to keep ACORN from receiving federal funding.

Wow.

Blowing up? Or imploding?
Or just waving the white flag of hate?

Either way.
It is official.
They've jumped the great white shark.

The registration "fraud" is not committed by ACORN, it's by the people completing the forms. Furthermore, ACORN was attempting (to the extent legal) to notify the registrars about the erroneous forms and thereby rectify the problem.

McCain and Co. have to know that incoherent ramblings like this will only appeal to the crazies who have no choice but to vote for them anyway. Are they just trying to beat the spread at this point?

I thought the report released by the campaign exonerating Palin was jumping the shark, but this is almost as insane. McCain really wants to take credit for blowing up the initial bailout? Hell, he even took credit for it at the time. He's going to have to answer a lot of questions about this, like why the hell he didn't say anything about it at the time, why he unsuspended his campaign on the grounds that the deal was likely, etc.

Obama should pummel him on this at the last debate.

My thoughts were running along the lines of H-Bob's (no offense). Is there any reason not to believe that a substantial amount of this registration fraud isn't the result of conservative yahoos who hate ACORN so much that they file incorrect forms?

ACORN's website states, "To maintain independence, ACORN does not accept government funding and is not tax exempt." Am I wrong in thinking that this effort to take credit for blowing up funding for ACORN is a moot point?

Actually, I did a bit of Googling and discovered that this *other* ACORN story has been boiling over in the fever swamps for some time without anyone in the left blogosphere noticing it. The story goes that there was funding for ACORN snuck into the first compromise proposal, the one that blew up that Thursday when McCain did his "suspension" grandstand. Or, there was funding for "ACORN-type organizations." Or [the truth] there was a proposal to designate 20 percent of any profits the Treasury might make on the sale of securities to a couple of affordable housing funds--a proposal some crazy on the WSJ editorial page declared to be an ACORN slush fund. This proposal was stripped from the proposal *before* it was voted on on Monday, but prior to that time Boehner, Blunt and the whole gang were raising a huge stink about the "ACORN slush fund."

What has this to do with McCain's claims? He's boasting of having "blown up" the original proposal that was to have been announced on Thursday, September 24. He has boasted [prematurely] of having been primarily responsible for the bill that was supposed to have passed on Monday, September 28 but wasn't. So technically he's correct. The fact that he's boasting of having played a material role in obstructing an emergency appropriation in the face of the worse financial crisis since the Great Depression, and of having done it for *these reasons,* is another matter altogether.

So voter registration fraud is not important? why is it a felony? we should just ignore it. I understand your argument that it is just anecdotal evidence of the actual fraud. I think the same is true of the actual voter fraud fom bush/gore and bush/kerry, but that hasn't stopped the left from claiming that we evil republicans stole those elections... (president select bush...)
I am grateful to live in america where i can have an opinion.
Bob

bob french: "So voter registration fraud is not important?"

It's important in that it means more work for the government authorities that have to sift through the registrations and sort out the bogus ones. However, those registrations aren't that useful for helping people vote more than once--which is what voter fraud really is.

from the Common Dreams article:
"Fact: Our canvassers are paid by the hour, not by the card, so there is NO incentive for them to falsify cards. ACORN has a zero-tolerance policy for deliberately falsifying registrations, and in the relatively rare cases where our internal quality controls have identified this happening we have fired the workers involved and turned them in to election officials and law-enforcement."

What's the motivation for falsification then?