The Post-Dispatch’s Jo Mannies is reporting that nearly 1,500 voter registration cards turned in recently by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) have been flagged as “potentially fraudulent” by the St. Louis Board of Elections.
This latest controversy comes just a week after we reported that several ACORN employees claimed they were instructed to tell people to vote for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill when they were registering new voters and performing GOTV activities on behalf of the Give Missourians a Raise committee.
Thanks to Mannies for mentioning our report in her story.
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October 11th, 2006 at 9:16 am
Is this a secret? ACORN campaigns for Dems all over the nation and I guess they made the mistake of hiring a turncoat, but these are just allegations. That’s politics, and in St. Louis, like most cities, it is a dirty game. I used to work for them in St. Louis and New York and they have their pluses and minuses; but overall they are the main organization that still exists to galvanize the working-class on issue of class, which the Democratic Party is ignoring, and the ill-effects of eminent-domain and gentrification, which the good Urbanists of the city tend to be on the other side of that debate.
October 11th, 2006 at 9:21 am
Nice! You were able to post this article right next to a Talent Campaign ad. I bet Jim’s very grateful.
October 11th, 2006 at 9:35 am
You are missing a big piece of the puzzle.
October 11th, 2006 at 10:19 am
Do tell.
October 11th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
The solution to voter fraud is obviously poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses.
The more barriers we create to voting the less chance of fraud!
We are building fences on our borders and on our democratic system. What a country!
October 12th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Is this publication paid for by the GOP? No wonder circulation is low. Try reporting both sides of the story instead of giving views for shock value and credible reporters may stop thinking of this as a RAG.
October 12th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
If you think that what they was anything short of criminal then you are part of the problem. Channel 5 interviewed a 16 year old girl who was a registered by acorn to vote. If you think that St. Louis can keep getting these black eyes and not become more of a laughing stock then you are nuts. Even Ali ended up punch drunk. The fact that Antonio covered this story has nothing to do with his politics, I am sure of that. These people are WHAT IS WRONG WITH ST. LOUIS!!!
TRouble