I mean I get it... the Republicans have been crying and shouting about Acorn. Sure there are bad registrations in the data and they're blowing things out of proportion for political purposes. This is one guy who registered illegally and now the Democrats are now trying to be making a big thing out of it.
It gets ugly because of the peculiarities of CA law that says you must be registered in the state to run a registration drive. So this guy is illegally registered to get other people registered. It's illegal, but from what I can read these are good registrations except for the fact that they're being quietly registered as Republicans for whatever that buys. So I guess technically everything this guy touched should be thrown out since it was illegal for him to register people, but if it's a good registration I'm all for more people being registered to vote.
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Re: That's not the point
Date: 2008-10-20 04:41 pm (UTC)It gets ugly because of the peculiarities of CA law that says you must be registered in the state to run a registration drive. So this guy is illegally registered to get other people registered. It's illegal, but from what I can read these are good registrations except for the fact that they're being quietly registered as Republicans for whatever that buys. So I guess technically everything this guy touched should be thrown out since it was illegal for him to register people, but if it's a good registration I'm all for more people being registered to vote.