The ongoing Republican attack on the lawful voter registration efforts of ACORN is a “desperate smokescreen maneuver” masking an extensive coast-to-coast GOP push to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters through a wide range of vote suppression tactics, according to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former lieutenant governor of the state of Maryland and a member of the board of advisors of NoVoterLeftBehind.net ( http://www.NoVoterLeftBehind.net).
Urging concerned Americans to get involved through NoVoterLeftBehind.net, Kennedy Townsend said: “The attack on the voter registration efforts of ACORN may go down in the record books as the ultimate case of the ‘dirty’ pot calling the ‘clean’ kettle black. ACORN is being savaged for doing its duty to openly self-report all cases where there may be any kind of issue with specific voter registration forms. By contrast, the GOP is skulking around out of the public eye across the nation in a sub rosa attempt to use a host of outrageous and desperate vote suppression tactics to steal the election.”
She added: “For every potentially problematic ACORN voter registration form that will never result in anyone casting an illegitimate vote, there are literally hundreds of voters who the GOP will go to any lengths to keep out of the voting booth. This attack on ACORN is a sad and deeply cynical tactic coming from a party that seems to have concluded that they can’t win the election on their own, so they have to prevent the other side from voting.”
Kennedy Townsend said that NoVoterLeftBehind.net is seeking to raise the necessary funds and volunteers (including legal experts) to fight the expected GOP challenges of the election outcome. NoVoterLeftBehind.net is monitoring voter registration and the actual vote leading up to and on Election Day in 2008. The campaign will shine a public spotlight on every last irregularity. The NoVoterLeftBehind.net Web site shows interested Democrats how to donate to support the effort, where to learn more about how Republicans steal elections and also ways to volunteer before and on Election Day 2008.
ACORN has come under attack in Nevada, Missouri, Ohio and elsewhere by Republicans attempting to block the many thousands of primarily low-income citizens that ACORN has registered. Under the law, ACORN must report irregular registrations that result from its process. The GOP is seizing on these entirely routine and voluntary reports as “fraudulent” filings, when in fact this is not the case at all. In nearly every state, ACORN is required to turn in all completed applications, even the ones we know to be problematic, and then to identify the ones involving possible concerns
