Much Ado About Nothing
Just wanted to flash back to before the election when every Republican, including Secretary of State Todd Rokita, was making a big deal about ACORN. Hey, look at this:
So much for ACORN’s voter registrations gumming up the works on Election Day.
Precinct workers reported just a handful of disputes Nov. 4 with voters who were part of the 5,000 registrations the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now collected in Lake County.
Elections officials set aside about 2,000 ACORN registrations they could not confirm were accurate ahead of the election, deciding that given the furor over the group it wouldn’t be prudent to add the voters to the rolls.
They then braced themselves for phone calls from irate residents all over the county wondering why their names weren’t on the poll books.
But the flood never came.
“We had about five calls,” said County Elections Supervisor Michelle Fajman.
You don’t suppose Rokita and his merry band of partisans drummed up a controversy as an attempt to suppress turnout in Democratic areas, do you?
I mean, he’s supposed to administer elections in a fair and impartial manner, and he already has one of the strictest voter ID laws in the nation on the books, so I just can’t imagine…
Oh, wait. Yes, I can. But it didn’t matter. All the scare tactics and hate-mongering didn’t work, and Barack Obama carried our state.
It’ll never stop feeling good to write that.




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My friend’s 16-year-old sister was approached by an ACORN representative and asked to register to vote. When she informed them she was only 16, they said it didn’t matter and she should just put down a fake SS number. When his parents went to vote, they asked if their daughter was on the voting registry — she was.
So yeah, I think I’ll keep those strict voter ID laws.