Olbermann is talking ACORN

:rofl:

You can take Keith out of Sportscasting, but you can't take the Sportscasting out of Keith.

I'm so happy he works Sunday Night Football.

before they launch into a massive effort in all the swing states, to challenge voter registrations in Democratic precincts at their polling places like they did in Ohio in 2004.

They engaged in an intense campaign, based on those caging lists and voter purging lists. It is within the rights of citizens to challenge voter registrations at the polls in some places, including Ohio, and so the RNC in 2004 stationed lots of people at a bunch of polling places in Democratic districts, to challenge certain voters' registrations.

There is not much voter fraud at all. Very few false registrations actually ever voted, in a 5 year study.

The main purpose of challenging the registrations is not a noble one. It isn't to be sure things are true, but rather to slow things way, way down and keep people standing in line for hours to discourage them from voting.

The only way Republicans win is to depress voter turnout. So they use old fashioned methods like these as well as any higher tech advantages they may be daring to test out here and there.

Other old fashioned techniques employed? One was mentioned by Keith's guest-- stationing "security guards" near the polling places just to intimidate voters. And misdirecting voters with robocalls and robofliers.

So the ACORN stuff gets John Q. Public thinking about voter fraud, so if the Republicans station people at the polling places in Democratic districts in all the swing states to slow things down and depress the vote count that way, the public will think they are just doing due diligence. The public won't realize it is all a ruse, only designed to delete Democratic votes in an old-fashioned way.

I hope the Republicans will call off their trickery this time and allow the people to have their choice, both in the Executive and Legislative branches because they understand that the country desperately needs the Democrats to clean things up and rebuild the budget and move the country rapidly into alternative energy production. Hoping again.