Republicans call B.S. on Acorn; Mother Jones

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List of Republicans Calling BS on ACORN Voter Fraud Allegations Growing

First the Republican Governor of Florida broke with Republican talking points on this ACORN voter fraud business (here's a primer on the ACORN kerfuffle).

Now fired US Attorney David Iglesias, who got the boot in part because he refused to pursue trumped up voter fraud charges against groups like ACORN, agrees.

David Iglesias says he's shocked by the news, leaked today to the Associated Press, that the FBI is pursuing a voter-fraud investigation into ACORN just weeks before the election.


"I'm astounded that this issue is being trotted out again," Iglesias told TPMmuckraker. "Based on what I saw in 2004 and 2006, it's a scare tactic." In 2006, Iglesias was fired as U.S. attorney thanks partly to his reluctance to pursue voter-fraud cases as aggressively as DOJ wanted -- one of several U.S. attorneys fired for inappropriate political reasons, according to a recently released report by DOJ's Office of the Inspector General.

Iglesias, who has been the most outspoken of the fired U.S. attorneys, went on to say that the FBI's investigation seemed designed to inappropriately create a "boogeyman" out of voter fraud.

Let's call this what it is: a massive and well-coordinated attempt to (1) discredit groups that register low-income voters and (2) lay the groundwork for a post-election delegitimization of Obama's victory. It's pre-spin.

the GOP is opening Pandora's box.... which I tremendously appreciate. They will highlight the election process and how folks vote in this country. And soon most Americans will realize the very Party calling foul, is the party that is essentially attacking our democratic system by purposefully disenfranchising voters.

Thank You idiots!

An ACORN spokesman said the group has not been notified that it is being investigated.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101603127.html

This is the biggest voter purge ever. Millions of voters, almost all of them Democrats, will be turned away this time.