ACORN is hard at work in Durham registering voters. According to this Herald-Sun editorial, County Elections Director Mike Ashe has his hands full monitoring the forms, some of which simply don’t look right (emphasis is mine):
Ashe recently asked state officials to check 80 registration forms for possible fraud. It seems the staff was tipped off because one person’s signature varied greatly in different places.
The forms were among about 4,000 submitted to the office over the last four to six weeks by a group called Acorn, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a liberal, get-out-the-vote organization. Acorn officials are quick to say they train workers to only register legitimate voters and emphasize that misrepresentation is a serious crime and a firing offense.
Still, while the organization may be innocent, Acorn attorney Brian Mellor admitted that some young volunteers “think they’re immune.”
They “think they’re immune” from cheating? From lying? From voter fraud?
