Betsy summarizes the NY Post article and Michelle Malkin’s report that ACORN is being investigated in seven separate states. She concludes that the corruption comes from the incentives ACORN offers…
The problem originates from the way that Acorn does business. When people are paid and evaluated based on how many forms they turn in, there is a natural incentive for workers to start falsifying the names on the registration forms. Since election laws require third-party registers to turn in all the forms that they get filled out, even those they think are illegitimate, they end up turning in thousands of registrations to election officials who then have to spend the time verifying each one. Acorn can claim that they’re just as upset as anyone else that there are these fraudulent forms and that they’re cooperating with authorities. But they have set up a system that encourages this sort of fraud. Their workers are hounding people to register even when they’re told that they have already registered. It has happened previously in other elections. The whole system of how these people work needs to be reformed. On the face of it, there is nothing wrong with trying to increase voter participation, but when you’re working with a system that facilitates or encourages fraud then they need to change their system.
