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Tag: ACORN (page 2)

Twelve GOPers defect, choose ACORN and political expediency over ballot integrity, principle

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Fri May 01, 2009 at 07:37:02 AM EST
Tags: House, 2010, ACORN, No Reason AV, RINO Hunting (all tags)

And on the same day I said something nice about the caucus here on RightMichigan.

It was just yesterday that I praised the House GOP for having the stones and the urgency to recognize the severity of a $1.32 BILLION budget crisis and to try (at least) to take some immediate action to right-size the size of our state government. Then twelve of them follow up that great move with this bone-head play?

No GOP legislator interview today. I'm frustrated personally but I don't think I'm going to be alone. This is the kind of nonsense that makes it tough for the GOP to build an effective brand.

Yesterday in the Michigan House of Representatives, twelve Republican members unnecessarily joined the overwhelming Democratic Majority in approving "No Reason Absentee Voting."

Representatives Justin Amash, Darwin Booher, Brian Calley, Bill Caul, Cindy Denby, Kevin Green, Goeff Hansen, Matt Lori, Pete Lund, Paul Opsommer, Tory Rocca and Sharon Tyler chose political expediency over the integrity of the ballot and secure elections.

I, for one, couldn't be more disappointed.

Please read on...

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Analysis: 200,000+ non-existent Detroiters registered to vote

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Tue Apr 07, 2009 at 07:53:15 AM EST
Tags: Fraud, ACORN, Detroit, Secretary of State, Brown, McManus, Norlander (all tags)

Check out these numbers courtesy of this morning's Ivory Tower:

Detroiters 18 and older: 603,000

National voter registration: 67.6%

National African American voter registration: 60.7%

Projected Detroit voter registration: 375,000 (approx.)

Number of bad registrations flagged for removal: 47,000

Total projected voter roll plus acknowledged bad entries: 422,000 (approx.)

Detroiters registered to vote: 633,000

Phantom voters: 211,000

Hu-wha?!

Yep. You read it here first, boys and girls. According to the best projections, historical records, census and registration figures there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 211,000 voter ID cards floating around the Motor City that have no business even existing.

The Tower goes to great lengths to explain away the fact that more registered voters exist than eligible voters, highlighting ad nauseam the problems with federal law that require bad voter registrations to remain on the books for two federal election cycles before being removed (that 47K number above) but never does the rest of the arithmetic.

211,000 phantom voters.

Here are a few more numbers to consider, from the top of the ticket...

2008 General Election results-
DEM: 96.93%
GOP: 2.65%

2006 General Election results-
DEM: 95.05%
GOP: 4.33%

2004 General Election results-
DEM: 93.61%
GOP: 5.93%

I'll say it again... 211,000 phantom voters. 211,000 phantom voters in a city that has spent the last two election cycles going more than 95/5 for the Left.

I'm just glad I'm not the only person who thinks that's a problem. In exclusive interviews with RightMichigan, 2010 Secretary of State candidates Cameron Brown, Michelle McManus and Anne Norlander each expressed concern about the integrity of registration rolls and groups like ACORN who have been caught red handed registering everyone from Mickey Mouse to Daffy Duck in cities across the country.

The Democrats argue that very few bad registrations make it all the way to City clerks, but I (don't) know 211,000 non-existant Detroiters who'd take issue with that claim.

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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

The Mighty ACORN

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Thu Apr 02, 2009 at 07:17:25 PM EST
Tags: ACORN, voter fraud, whistleblowers, New York Times, John Conyers (all tags)

Bill's new column this week takes a look at the operations of the left-wing group ACORN and some incomplete reporting on the organization by the New York Times. Since you wouldn't normally have a chance to read this in your local paper (unless you live in Alpena, Escanaba, Marquette, or Mount Clemons), I thought I'd cross-post it here. Just FYI, there is a Michigan angle to this, and it's not one you'd expect.