"Just shut-up John.  Let us steal the election."

They say it's to increase voter turnout, but you never see Acorn trying to register voters in any areas other than liberal-democrat areas. 

McCain was right to say what he said...which is why the LAT (Liberal Airhead Times) wants him to shut up.

There was an AP-Anti Palin, story that ran in our local paper yesterday saying about the same thing. If you read both theses it sounds like no laws have been broken for fraudulent registrations. It is only when someone tried to vote when it becomes fraud. Tell me why the FBI is looking into fraud in the registration process.

I couldn't find a link to it so I copied the article

ACORN controversy: Fraud or mudslinging?

By DEBORAH HASTINGS
AP National Writer

   The stories are almost comical: Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, registered to vote on Nov. 4. The entire starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team, signed up to go the polls — in Nevada.
   But no one in either presidential campaign is laughing. Not publicly, anyway.
   Republicans, led by John McCain, are alleging widespread voter fraud. The Democrats and Barack Obama say the controversy is preposterous and is just political mudslinging.
   In the middle is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, a grass-roots community group that has led liberal causes since it formed in 1970. This year, ACORN hired more than 13,000 part-time workers and sent them out in 21 states to sign up voters in minority and poor neighborhoods.
   They submitted 1.3 million registration cards to local election offi cials.
   Along the way, bogus ones appeared — signed in the names of cartoon characters, professional football players and scores of others bearing the same handwriting. And in the past few days, those phony registrations have exploded into Republican condemnations of far-ranging misconduct, and a relatively obscure community activist group took a starring role, right behind Joe the Plumber, in the final presidential debate.
   Looking beyond the smoke and fire, the raging argument boils down to essentially this:
   Is ACORN, according to McCain, perpetuating voter fraud that could be “destroying the fabric of democracy”? Or are Republicans trying to keep the disadvantaged, who tend to be Democrats, from casting ballots in a hotly contested presidential race that has drawn record numbers of new voters?
   By legal defi nition, to commit voter fraud means a person would have to present some kind of documentation at the polls — a driver’s license, a phone bill or another form of ID — that bears the name of Mickey Mouse, for example. To do so risks a fine and imprisonment under state laws.
   Submitting fake registration cards is another matter. Local law enforcement agencies in about a dozen states are investigating fake registrations submitted by ACORN workers. Late last week, The Associated Press reported the FBI will be reviewing those cases.
   Accusations of stolen votes have a long history in presidential elections. In the 2000 recount debacle, Republicans claimed illegal ballots were cast. Democrats contended that legal ballots were thrown out. In 2004, when Ohio gave the presidency to George W. Bush, Democrats charged that long lines and malfunctioning machines in that state led to an inaccurate count.
   But in this contest, involving the fi rst African-American in American history with a real chance at becoming president, the vitriol is particularly pointed.
   “This is all just one big head-fake,” said Tova Wang of the government watchdog group Common Cause. “What silliness this is, at this point. It’s all about creating this perception that there is a tremendous problem with voter fraud in this country, and it’s not true.”
   On Friday, during a campaign appearance, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin repeated McCain’s recent claims that Obama has close ties to ACORN.
   “You deserve to know,” Palin told thousands in a park north of Cincinnati. “This group needs to learn that you here in Ohio won’t let them turn the Buckeye State into the Acorn State.”
   Obama helped represent ACORN in a successful 1995 suit against the state of Illinois, which forced enactment of the so-called motorvoter law, making it easier for people to register vote. Obama said this week that he had “nothing to do with” ACORN’s massive voter registration drive.
   ACORN spokesman Brian Kettenring retaliated this week in a series of conference calls and interviews. “What we’re seeing is the manufacture of a crisis, and attempts to smear Sen. Obama with it. It gives you an excuse should you lose or if there’s a contested outcome of the election.”
   Voter fraud is rare in the United States, according to a 2007 report by the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. Based on reviews of voter fraud claims at the federal and state level, the center’s report asserted most problems were caused by things like technological glitches, clerical errors or mistakes made by voters and by election offi cials.
   “It is more likely that an individual will be struck by lightning than he will impersonate another voter at the polls,” the report said.
   Alex Keyssar, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, calls the current controversy “chapter 22 in a drama that’s been going on awhile. The pattern is that nothing much ever comes from this. There have been no known cases of people voting fraudulently.”
   “What we’ve seen,” Keyssar said, “is sloppiness and someone’s idea of a stupid joke, like registering as Donald Duck.”

"The devil is a better theologian that any of us and is a devil still" A.W. Tozer

On having their cake and eating it too.

My first response to the ACORN wash by the LA Times editorial board is, "Gee folks - this is voter registration fraud. ACORN is not new to this. It is illegal. It does corrupt and taint the entire process." That is what your editorial should be about; not about McCain.

My second thought was that there was a rather significant reform mechanism suggested - and by someone you usually side with [Jimmy Carter] which, had our entire national MSM not disagreed with and kept out of the discussion these past few years, would have served to prevent voter fraud. You wanted an Election reform commission. You got it. You didn't like it - didn't fit your agenda, eh? 

Since the Commission concluded, it's reccomendations have been missing in most every article or debate on the various state voter ID legislation issues, and resulting court challenges,  and how to address voter fraud (besides serious immigration reform), etc., is the solution. PBS's Bill Moyers, recently, hosted yet another look at the Voter ID cases, which spewed spin at voter ID law cases - with no mention of Carter's view:

In 2005, Jimmy Carter and James Baker co-chaired a bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform. Their reccomendations?

A uniform voter photo ID, based on the federal Real ID Act of 2005

I bet ACORN didn't like the sound of that. Neither does our left wing MSM. That's why they don't bring it up - that would make folks stand up and demand it.

Another joint observation from Carter/Baker earlier this year:

most of the opponents [for the reform] are Democrats

Democrats have tended to try to block voter ID legislation outright

And from the WSJ's John Fund in April of this year:

Justice Stevens, the real reformer, believes voter ID laws are justified to prevent fraud. Barack Obama, the faux reformer, hauls out discredited rhetoric that they disenfranchise voters.

Massive voter registration fraud has been perpetrated by ACORN. This alone should be investigated at the FBI for RICO violations because it appears that there is an uncanny pattern across the US of registration irregularities. IF fake voters voting, or multiple voting occurs based on the registrations acquired by ACORN occurs, they should be investigated for promoting vote fraud.