Mccain accuses ACORN of voter fraud-1/4

McCain Campaign Accuses Community Organizing Mainstay ACORN of Fraud in Successful Mass Voter Registration Drive

With Election Day approaching, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), finds itself in the cross hairs. Over the past year and a half, ACORN has helped 1.3 million mostly young, mostly poor people register to vote. Then, last week, ACORN was thrust into the national spotlight when the McCain campaign accused it of engaging in fraudulent voter registration on a massive scale. We host a debate between ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis and Cleta Mitchell, a Republican attorney specializing in election law. [includes rush transcript]

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[newfoundart]

You basically have to be a moron to think that individuals would risk criminal indictment, or illegals risk deportation, so as to increase the possibility of electing a US president by a single vote. Cleta Mitchell is another republican operative.

[gilgtc]

She is indeed a voracious snake, I'd watch my back around her. I think she probably uses the facts when she has them... I always thought the best lawyers tended to be more rhetorical than factual, they're just like politicians, finding a means to an end, no matter what...

[newfoundart]

Cleta Mitchell is one nasty psycho of a woman. Amazing how a trained attorney can be so messed up as to incorporate so much rhetoric and so little fact; just read the actual transcript here and look for anything qualifying as a specific discovery.

[meekone2007]

When you are afraid, you don't always listen or process well.

[andid]

I don't get how fraudulent registration has anything to do with election fraud. Register all the fake people you want, they won't be showing up to vote.

I don't get how this is a controversy at all.

[theoneandonlyroelle]

keep up the real news