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| Last Edited | Penguin Oct 13, 2008 09:10pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| Media | Newspaper - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ACORN’s mission, it says, in registering some 1.3 million new voters this election season — about 31,000 in Wisconsin — is to give electoral voice to low- and moderate-income communities.
Scary stuff.
Well, it is, judging from the backlash the organization is encountering - and not just in Wisconsin. Nationwide. "Voter fraud!" is again the rallying cry.
Lesson previously learned: Allegations of massive voter fraud, shouted from the rooftops in election season, are something far less when the dust settles. In Wisconsin, ACORN is being excoriated for submitting registration cards found to be fraudulent and hiring seven felons as deputy registrars, those workers who try to get people to register.
We agree that ACORN shouldn't have hired the felons, who, by the way, appear to have done their jobs properly, the group says. A staff opinion by the state Government Accountability Board concludes that deputy registrar is an "office of trust, profit or honor." And the Wisconsin Constitution says, "No person convicted of a felony in any court within the United States" shall occupy such an office.
But even the City of Milwaukee, which conducts the sessions to deputize the registrars, wasn't aware of the staff opinion. Like ACORN, it presumed eligible voters are eligible for these jobs. Felons who have finished serving sentences and probations can vote in Wisconsin. |
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