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A report issued today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds little to support the charges that led to the demise of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a grassroots consumer advocacy organization driven out of existence by Congressional critics
GAO Finds Little to Support Congress' Abolition of ACORN
Seeded on Sun Jun 19, 2011 1:31 PM EDT
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The GAO found that monitoring of awards to ACORN by government agencies generally consisted of reviewing progress reports and making site visits. Of 22 investigations of alleged election and voter registration fraud, most were closed without prosecution, the report found.
One of eight investigations of alleged voter registration fraud resulted in guilty pleas and seven were closed without action due to lack of evidence.
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#1 - Sun Jun 19, 2011 1:32 PM EDTThe whole point is being missed. We cannot tolerate any organization whose agenda is to educate, empower, or advocate for those without shoes. Americans must pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
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#2 - Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:01 PM EDTThe real crime here is that Fox News and Andrew Breitbart actually won this battle against an organization that was registering people to vote. This was actually just one step in the concerted republican effort to disenfranchise as many potential democratic voters as possible. Every voter suppression effort we have seen is couched in the rhetoric of "voter fraud". But when the results are in, there is no voter fraud, there is just disenfranchisement. An un-American, anti-democratic, pro-fascist agenda if I ever saw one.
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