Wow! CNN throws away the Republican talking points

CNN's investigative reporter Drew Griffin says that if there is any fraud involved with ACORN's voter registration efforts, it's fraud committed AGAINST ACORN by people who copied names out of the phone book or made them up.

Kudos to Griffin for pointing out that there was NO fraud on the part of ACORN to try to swing an election; that the fraud was from people who didn't want to do the job for which they were paid. Kudos also to Griffin for pointing out that there's a long road from false voter names to false votes and there is virtually no evidence that one leads to another. I only wish Griffin had pointed out that instead of accusing ACORN of sloppiness, he had noted that ACORN also flagged those registrations it believed to be false when turning them in BECAUSE BY LAW THEY WERE REQUIRED TO TURN THEM IN. REAL voter registration fraud is doing things like coercing people into changing their registrations to sign a petition, as Republicans have done, or throwing registrations away so that people who think they have registered to vote find on Election Day that they haven't.

With all their outrage about so-called "voter fraud", Republicans care not one bit about voting machines that switch votes and thugs being recruited to intimidate voters. The snippet from Sarah Palin simply points out that her party believes it's better that millions of Democratic voters be denied their right of franchise than to have even a miniscule possibility that a few dozen people, out of tens of millions of eligible voters, might show up to vote.