Democrats winning registration battle in Florida

ACORN.

OBAMA IS GOING TO WIN VIA GRAND THEFT ELECTION. CHICAGO THUGGERY MEETS THE HEARTLAND.

The ACORN comment is absurd. Republican corruption, an illegal war that has cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives, an economy in shambles thanks to tax giveaways to the rich, deregulation of the financial industry (another, more grandiose giveaway), cronyism and ineptitude have dug us into a hole domestically and lost us our leadership position on the world stage. Most people have figured out cause and effect, none of which we would be experiencing were it not for the Republican/Rovian election stealing of 2000 and vote stealing in Ohio in 2004.

Kevin, you can't be serious. We are done with savage stupidity and mindless yelling. There is no excuse left for what the Republicans have done to this once proud country. We need a change. And you need to start thinking with some intelligence before you get left behind in your own stew of bilous vitriol.
Honestly, Barack Obama has lived the "Republican" American Success Story better than any Republican on the current stage, he made something of himself by virtue of his own hard work.
Colin

And considering that 300,000 of those 350,000 registrations carry the name "Mickey Mouse", I'd say the democrats did their usual fine, fine job. Just thank God none of them have to show any ID at all to cast their vote. Then again, I forgot, it's the republicans who steal elections.

Overzealous ACORN members sign up phantom voters, Republican election supervisors purge voter rolls of Democrats in wholesale lots.
It is a balance of fraud, in a way. Of course, when it comes down to voting day, those phantom voters don't show up. The purged voters ARE turned away at the voting booth, so the Republican fraud actually works.

Uh. Acorn is a storm in a teacup. Newly registered voters have to show some form of official ID: passport, drivers license, military id, etc. Without that, you don't get to vote on the regular ballot. Only provisional and those are not typically counted due to the problems associated with them. So, enough about Acorn. This is total and utter nonsense. So, if little kiddies make up registrations just to get paid that week for work they are being paid to actually collect, well, then it's not fraud. There's no theft of anything except theft of Acorn by silly kids who just wanted to sit at home rather than actually register people. These fake people can't and will not be voting. So, shut up about "fraud". You should be asking why real voters were not accepted in the 2000 and 2004 elections. But, I guess you are a Republican voter who sees actual fraud as OK??

Clinton Years Higher Taxes more Prosperity
Bush Years Lower Taxes Economic melt down.
Republicans are two for two.
1921-1929 Republican presidents prior to stock market crash.
2000-2008 Republican President prior to Meltdown.
The Republican party must be held responsible for the
For bringing down America

Keep ignoring the middle class and the working poor.

middle class whiner
k

For months now I have been reading the political comments posted by readers online and I have noticed that the extreme conservative Republicans are especially hateful, and most of them fill their comments with Rush Limbaugh sound bites. Rush Limbaugh has had way too much "freedom of speech" during these last 8 years, encouraged and allowed to do so by the Republican administration. Limbaugh has poisoned a large bloc of Republican citizens, keeping them trapped in an attitude 25 years out of date. He stokes their fears and amplifies their worst characteristics, driving them to see an enemy in everything out of the conservative box. This prevents these people from accepting the changes and advances of 21st century America, isolating them and making it harder and harder for them to live productive and happy lives. It is my hope that the Obama administration will rein in the poison conservative talk show faction, which truly needs to be suppressed. Perhaps then, the good people who follow it and live by it can be healed of their unwarranted hate and bigotry.

To these people I say: there is no reason to be so hateful and fearful! Rush has it all wrong! This is a great country, full of good people, patriots all, and great possibilites for a happy and prosperous life. That neighbor whose views differ from yours is not a terrorist or a socialist or a communist, he's just the fellow American next door. Learn to feel love and hope and generousity. Stop fearing and hating. God bless America!

ACORN drives voter registration as well as other community oriented activities. Tell me - how can anyone go into the polls and present themselves as Mickey Mouse and be allowed to vote. ACORN is responsible for flagging those voter registrations cards that were false. Republicans seem interested in suppressing millions of votes-every american whether they are rich, poor, young, old, black, white, yellow, brown has the right to vote. You don't throw millions of registrations cards away because of a few bad ones. Republicans would stand a better chance if they came up with some new ideas instead of attack, attack, attack or suppress, suppress, suppress.

Kevin, you can't be serious. We are done with savage stupidity and mindless yelling. There is no excuse left for what the Republicans have done to this once proud country. We need a change. And you need to start thinking with some intelligence before you get left behind in your own stew of bilous vitriol.
Honestly, Barack Obama has lived the "Republican" American Success Story better than any Republican on the current stage, he made something of himself by virtue of his own hard work.
Colin

Hey Kevin, you guys are desperate! Just don't want black people to vote. So typical.

GO BARACK!!!

The Democrats are going to spend tons of time and money getting people registered and to the polls, and then the Republican Diebold voting machines are going to "adjust" the results for McCain anyway.

JudiNV -- YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD! I'VE NEVER SEEN THE CONSERVATIVE MENTAL ISSUES LAID OUT SO CLEARLY!

(All caps on purpose, meant to YELL)

Getting people to register to vote is a good thing.
Targeting those who will vote Democratic is part of the process.

Think about a Military recruiter who signs up anyone he/she can. The Military is now signing up great people, but also high school dropouts, kids with records, maybe did drugs, street gang members, etc. If you think this is being made up your fooling yourself.

ACORN, not perfect, likely with problems, .... the world is not perfect.

I think what most people have missed in the Acorn thing, is that most of the bogus names WERE FLAGGED BY ACORN! As I understand it, they aren't allowed to just toss names out, they are required to report the bogus ones they find.

I think the only reason that you hear more of this about Democrats is that the Republicans have decided to go negative. I don't know if the Democrats are going to run with it, but there's a story about voter registration fraud on the other side in the LA times, by an organization called YPM.

I think if I were a Republican election strategist, I wouldn't say anything about fraud and questionable voting registration, etc., considering how many strange stories we've heard about people being turned away from the polls.

On the other hand, if you get everyone nervous and excited about this, you can make things harder for the people who have less time, energy, and money to get every single duck in a row so they can vote. I have missed two elections, fortunately not big ones, in the town I live in because something went wrong with registration. I don't suspect a conspiracy, bu the effect would be the same. Because I was comfortable with the town govemment, I went and cast a provisional ballot in one of those elections. But if I was a nervous voter from the projects, who was working two 30 hour a week jobs, I don't think I would have.

Why wouldn't anyone not want black folks to vote? They're not all simply going to vote for The Chosen One because he's half black, are they? Why, that would be racist!!!

And to Pam....why or why are dems so afraid of folks having to actually show id to vote? Could it be due to the coming wide spread voter fraud that ACORN and Obama are counting on?

It is unbelievably ironic to hear a Republican assert that Democrats are going to steal a state by voter fraud. Do a Google search on "vote fraud 2004 Ohio" or "Cuyahoga county spoilage over 3%." These aren't far-out conspiracy theories; they're clear facts. John Kerry was robbed of the White House in 2004, just as Gore was in 2000, by Republican voter fraud.

For those who don't know, if you in a voter registration drive, by LAW of every state in the nation, you must turn in every single registration card. This is the law of the land, but the conservative, drive by, media, who only wants to give you just enough facts, don't want you to know these things.

JUdiNV scares me. She is advocating suppressing freedom of speech. So much like all the Obama robots out there who think Obama's 'change' is going to be good. Keep the change, I say. His kind of change is the same as Jimmy Carter's and it was not good for us. As for this story, I live in Florida now and the difference between voting here and voting in MA is amazing. ACORN may be registering tons of new "Democrats" like MIckey Mouse, but it's another thing to see them at the polls because here, unlike MA where even the dead and illegal vote, you need to show a voter registration card sent to your address and a valid license. They are serious about voter fraud here, and we'll see what happens on election
day.
Reining in Rush LImbaugh is not the answer; having more of the kind of free speech like his to educate all those who have been indoctrinated with liberal garbage over the years (taxes are patriotic, spread the wealth around) should be encouraged. Just the fact that judiNV advocates for something that is against our Constitution tells me all I need to know about Obama voters. Disagree with us, and we'll silence you, or shame you, or call you names, or make your life miserable as they did to poor Joe the plumber, who had the audacity to ask The Messiah a legitimate question. No one will get ahead under Obama. Welcome to the new USSR!

God love you Judi, I've been saying that around here for weeks too. Sadly, they won't listen to you.

I'm not to pretend to speak to what I don't know, all I do know is that when I go to vote, I have to go to the precinct my street is in. I tell the nice elderly lady who works for the polls what street I live on. She flips to that page in her book, and asks me my name. I tell her, she checks me off, and I go vote. When I turn in my ballot, I am asked all this info again, and am checked off.

Is it naive of me to believe there are people that really do their job? If registrations don't fly, they get kicked out, they won't be on a list at the polls no? These fictitious people aren't going to show up. If I register as my dead grandma, it's going to get figured out no? Don't you need to provide a SS# when you register? Show an ID at that point? Names on a list aren't just what goes into this. The person who then takes the list verifies the identity of people on it, no?

Personally, I'd be more suspicious of the thug tactics than this stupid BS.

Kevin,
I am an attorney in Palm Beach County. I recommend you watch the short documentary entitled "Unprecedented" about the 2000 election fiasco in Florida.
Senator Obama's campaign workers watching the polls as part of a voter protection program have been instructed to report any problems and help make sure everyone's vote gets counted, REGARDLESS OF THEIR PARTY!
That's democracy!!

the act of voter REGISTRATION is not the issue. that person still must SHOW UP to vote, and show proof of identity. no one canl show up with an id card reading "micky mouse' and be allowed to vote. people need to understand the difference between registration and the act of voting. it is amusing to see the outrage from the republicans who, in effect, committed voter fraud against gore ,screaming about this issue. ACORn, by the way, is the agency reporting the questionable names, as they have done for years as part of their committment
to accuracy

How stupid are you people? The republicans have really controlled the government for four or five years in the last FORTY FIVE five years . Look it up before you run your head democommies. You people aer lamer than my son-in-law.

"Unenrolled" - Your username explains everything.......

Judi,
Your comments are "right on"....Rush Limbough is one of many commentators who have worked their ideological head trip on the American population.
The Christian "right wing" is also very culpable
You have capsulized my sentiments to a " T "
George Bush was successful in some ways....after all he has contributed to the "dumbing of America'" has he not?

Three hundred million fictitious voters can register, and it would have no effect on the election. Registering people who are not real in order to get paid more money by ACORN does nothing to the voting process itself. Voter fraud is exceedingly rare - probably much less a problem than voter suppression. People must risk a prison term if they wish to vote illegally. How many people will do that in order to cast a single vote for anyone? How many are likely to show up to vote and claim to be Mickey Mouse as they do so?

Wouldn't if be nice if all these so called patriotic Americans left the country once Obama wins? Where will they go? Who will want them? I hope they find their paradise where they don't have to pay any taxes.

A man of God Like "Barack Obama" his parties of angle watching over him!
Love you Obama!

Happy President Victory!

God Bless,
Your Family & GrandMa in Heaven!!!