Securing Our Votes

With the elections right around the corner, both candidates are doing what they can to secure their votes, and convince some last minute voters. Advertisements are running more than ever, and the campaign is more heated than it has been this far.

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also known as ACORN, works to stop Republican voter suppression tactics. Some may also think of them as far-left radical activist group. With over a dozens worth of states that have now have reported issues of significant irregularities in voting registration. The ACORN foundation considers themselves consistently present as a voice for working families since 1970.

The Vote-Suppression, also known as the GOP strategy has shifted from attempts to win the popular vote by demonizing Barack Obama to reversing American voting standards.

Most citizens are wondering if we are going to have have a fair election. This would not be a problem is suppressing the vote not become apart of the Republican electoral strategy. Neither side wants a victory to besmirched by fraud, and neither side wants to risk losses due to fraud. ACORN paid a $25,000 settlement and agreed to monitoring of its voter registration efforts. While the ACORN office is still signing up new voters, no one needs a photo I.D. to register or vote. The democratically-controlled state Legislature turned that idea down.

ACORN is an organization to register people to vote. Workers are out on the streets, making minimum wage, gathering information from citizens to submit to their company. Since its all done by paperwork, there is given a lot of room for fraud, and for false identities. A thing that could make it a Scandal, is that it is possible the ACORN employees are submitting false identities to make their daily quota. If it is true, ACORN is up for a lot of law suits. With ACORN Scandal, more votes are accumulated than people.

With the Vote Suppression, it is the opposite. The Vote suppression limits the amount of people that are able to vote. They make assumptions and characteristics that can be considered unconstitutional. For example, if there is a criminal with the name of Joseph, certain states can pass laws limiting the number of Joseph's allowed to vote. This makes it possibly an uneven and incorrect vote in the end.

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