Exposing the Lie Behind ACORN'S "Voter Fraud"

SPECIAL COVERAGE: The GOP's ACORN 'Voter Fraud' Lie

The GOP's ACORN 'Voter Fraud' Hoax (2006 Version)

by Brad Friedman

The seeds for this scam had been planted long ago. But by the GOP, not by ACORN. See our Special Coverage page of the GOP's "American Center for Voting Rights" front group, formed in early 2005 (just three days before they were called to testify to Congress on the '04 election) to begin the propaganda front for the 2008 election.

Also, see the Rosetta Stone for the modern day GOP "voter fraud" scam --- meant only to keep legal voters from being able to cast a vote at all --- in "Conservative Founding Father" Paul Weyrich's 1980 speech to 15,000 Baptist preachers in Dallas. The :40 second video is here, featuring Weyrich instructing his fellow rightwingers (including Ronald Reagan and Jerry Falwell, who were also there): "I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

And then, right on schedule, in the days prior to the 2008 election, the GOP again hauled out their bogus ACORN "voter fraud" scam, as the latest battle in the ongoing "Republican War on Democracy".

Here are the most notable stories from that recently reignited scam...
10/7/08: 'Stunt' Raid at NV ACORN Office & the GOP ACORN Lie Revealed

10/8/08: RNC Issues Fox 'News' Transcript on ACORN 'Voter Fraud' as Press Release

10/9/08: GOP Election Official Claims ACORN 'Voter Fraud' in MO

10/9/08: GOP Sheriff Claims 'Voter Fraud' in Dem County in OH

10/12/08: FL's 'Voting-Rigging' Congressman Cries 'Voter Fraud' on Fox

10/12/08: 1.3 Million Reasons for the GOP 'Dixie-Chicking' of ACORN...

...And the FACTS to Counter It...

10/13/08: Brad at UK's Guardian - "The Republican Voter Fraud Hoax"

10/13/08: McCain Was ACORN's Keynote Speaker in 2006!

10/14/08: So Where's the ACORN 'Voter Fraud'? (Hint: It doesn't exist)

10/16/08: John McCain: 'One of the Greatest Frauds in Voter History'

He Should Know, As Even Some Republicans Begin to Back off the Lie

10/19/08: CA GOP Vote Registration Contractor Arrested for Registration Fraud, Perjury

10/21/08: GOP Charges of ACORN 'Voter Fraud' in NM Fall Apart

10/22/08: Colbert Video: GOP ACORN 'Voter Fraud' Hoax Now a National Joke

Getting the picture? Please click the links above to learn what you aren't being told about this story by the clueless corporate media.

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