I applaud the Supreme Court ruling upholding the State of Indiana’s law requiring photo ID to vote.
Unfortunately, the voter registration group ACORN disagrees. The solution is simple, ACORN should disband. Here’s a short summary of the fraud ACORN perpetrated in Washington State from this Fox news article on voter fraud.
But if photo I.D. requirements had been the law in Washington state, the voter fraud scandal involving ACORN in 2006 would never have happened. According to Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed, the incident “was the worst case of election fraud in our state’s history. It was an outrage.”
Two years ago ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, but there was a problem. The names were made up — all but six of the 1,800 submissions were fakes. Reed said he was appalled.
The head of ACORN’s Washington State office, John Jones claims it was an isolated event, even though it involved 5% of the voters they registered for that year.
“It was a difficult time but you know what, that was the exception and not the rule. The exception was that something did not go right,” Jones said, denying that the organziation was responsible.
So ACORN agreed to do the obvious
ACORN paid a $25,000 settlement and agreed to monitoring of its voter registration efforts.
If ACORN is an organization whose goal is to register people, without prejudice, for whatever party they wish to register for I wish them well. However, if they are trying to cherry-pick who they register, they should especially be on the alert for attracting exactly they kind of people that they did in Seattle. What kind of dummy couldn’t figure that out? Apparently a dummy by the name of John Jones and his superiors.
