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New What is "no sig, no pay"?
I presume you are saying the canvassers for ACORN are paid on a piecework basis. I know this is one of the right wing bugaboos, but it would help to get the facts right when denouncing them. They pay hourly.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/acorn_rallies_its_troops.php
New Re: What is "no sig, no pay"?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10102008/news/politics/1_voter__72_registrations_132965.htm
during the last election cycle I asked one of the aggressive downtown sig chasers, he stated he was getting paid by the sig. Many years ago when I was collecting signatures for a petition drive for acorn I was getting paid by the sig. Just assumed it was still the same
thanx,
bill
New I've said it before
When a Republican complains about voter fraud, what he is really saying is too many brown people are allowed to vote.

Edited to add this:
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ACORN registers lots of lower income and/or minority voters. They operate all across the country and do a lot of things beside voter registration. What's key to understand is their method. By and large they do not rely on volunteers to register voters. They hire people -- often people with low incomes or even the unemployed. This has the dual effect of not only registering people but also providing some work and income for people who are out of work. But because a lot of these people are doing it for the money, inevitably, a few of them cut corners or even cheat. So someone will end up filling out cards for nonexistent names and some of those slip through ACORN's own efforts to catch errors. (It's important to note that in many of the recent ACORN cases that have gotten the most attention it's ACORN itself that has turned the people in who did the fake registrations.) These reports start buzzing through the right-wing media every two years and every time the anecdotal reports of 'thousands' of fraudulent registrations turns out, on closer inspection, to be either totally bogus themselves or wildly exaggerated. So thousands of phony registrations ends up being, like, twelve.
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A nice rundown on the biannual mouthbreather freakout over ACORN from Josh Marshall at TPM
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/223436.php
Expand Edited by Silverlock Oct. 11, 2008, 03:54:59 PM EDT
New And besides
A fraudulent registration is not the same as a fraudulent vote. If a low-paid canvasser decides to cut corners and submit a voter card for "Tony Roma" (happened in Ohio, and that's a restaurant chain for non-US-ians) that doesn't mean Tony Roma is actually going to show up to vote.

Voter registration fraud != voter fraud

Voter registration fraud is perpetrated on Acorn. They are the victim.
New It's a restaurant chain in .au too
Is it just us Australians who get the curious mix of food that's decent and service that's just, well, weird?
     Ugliness flourishes in racist-code campaign ads - (Ashton) - (6)
         republican party of florida invites voter fraud in mailing - (boxley) - (5)
             What is "no sig, no pay"? - (Silverlock) - (4)
                 Re: What is "no sig, no pay"? - (boxley) - (3)
                     I've said it before - (Silverlock) - (2)
                         And besides - (drook) - (1)
                             It's a restaurant chain in .au too - (Meerkat)

This is all frightfully unimportant, but since when has that been a reason not to post?
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