ACORN doesn't decide who becomes a voter

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They collect registration application cards and deliver them to the governmental agency called the Registrar of Voters where then they are gone over and decided if they are legit or not.
By law ACORN must separate out the phony looking ones. And by law they must hand in ALL of them real or not.

Why are these basic facts lost on so many?

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[ck4829]

1. I think this is why

"I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."
- Paul Weyrich, he was one of the leading gurus of the modern right wing.

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3. DING! DING! DING! -- we have a winner! nt

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2. The propaganda got catapulted.

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4. They are not "lost"

They are followed into vestibules, smashed over the head and left for dead.

[ljm2002]

5. These basic facts are lost on so many...

...because the right wing and their water carriers in the media craft the coverage to make it so. It is really that simple.

As in many other areas of our political discourse, the waters are muddied and the facts are twisted in a conscious effort to frame the debate in ways that keep the general population oblivious to reality and unable to connect the dots about voter disenfranchisement and how it benefits the GOP / monied elites at the expense of the greater population.

The messages from our side have been diluted due to a number of factors, not least of which is that so many Democratic "leaders" have been co-opted themselves so that very few of them deliver messages that are straightforward. Therefore they fail to cut through the BS and just add to the general blather and noise. While the right-wing message is delivered in pithy sound bites, and the fact that it gets so much serious (I use the term loosely, but you know what I mean -- serious-seeming, anyway) coverage in the media, people think that where there's smoke, there's fire.

Again -- this is why I am always hesitant to call the general population "stupid" for the slanted and uninformed views that so many hold. I view them more as victims of propaganda, who still believe that the "news" programs are in general reliable sources of information. Whereas that has not been true for at least the last 30 years. Instead, the mainstream news sources have been taken over by propagandists and that is what is delivered, day in and day out -- in that sense, they are indeed reliable.

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6. Bravo

Well said

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