Oct 14th, 2008 | Acorn survey

ACORN registers mickey mouse to vote.....do you see anything wrong with this?


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Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote in Florida this summer.

Orange County elections officials rejected his application, which was stamped with the logo of the nonprofit group ACORN.

 



ACORN registers mickey mouse to vote.....do you see anything wrong with this?


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Poll tags:Acorn, Obama, Liberal, Democrat, Voter Registration, Fraud

 
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Kookie.lee
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Australia

posted Oct 18th, 2008 at 03:27 CDT

Part of that is due to the fact that voting is compulsary here in Australia.  I don't even know if fraud is possible, it's very doubtful.  I would like to see America create some system of registration to eliminate fraud altogether.  Maybe they should study what they do here, and adapt it to our voluntary voting system.  It seems to be much more efficient in Australia.  Compulsary voting even seems like a good idea in some ways to me, really, but Americans believe it to be a right, not a responsability. 

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Oct 16th, 2008 at 08:31 CDT

stand by for proof that some of these fake voters have already cast ballots in ohio....developing

Philgtaylor
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Australia

posted Oct 15th, 2008 at 19:35 CDT

The system here in Australia is far more efficient. You go to the Electoral Commission to register, and then on polling day, you can go and vote. Nobody is going out and canvassing anybody with quotas to maintain.

Kookie.lee
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Australia

posted Oct 15th, 2008 at 16:32 CDT

Which is one of the reasons I have said for years (at least 8 anyway) that the whole system needs to be tossed,  and a new one put in place.  With today's technology, there is absolutely no reason for these stupid things to even be happening.  And these are the things which cause people to call them 'Mickey Mouse' elections.  It looks good to the world, that we allow the people to vote for our public servants.  But what is the value of each vote, when there are so many false ones out there?  It sure goes down, doesn't it?  It's no wonder people get discouraged, and don't bother.---Oh, and I didn't know it had to be Disney characters.  I'll keep this in mind, in my future write-ins. 

Philgtaylor
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Australia

posted Oct 15th, 2008 at 09:25 CDT

OK lets say that they DO get enough people together to actually use these fake registrations. Now these people do not know which have been checked and which have not. Are they just going to go in, blindly hoping that the voter registration that they had memorised had not been double checked? Come on. What you are saying is ridiculous AND self contradictory. Trying to vote on the offchance that one of the fraudulent enrolments slipped through the cracks is a complete waste of time.

Philgtaylor
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Australia

posted Oct 15th, 2008 at 09:22 CDT

But they HAVE to put all the registrations through, even IF they red flag them. It is ILLEGAL for them to NOT put them through, and rightly so. They are the victims here. They are being put in an impossible situation. Either not submit the (redflagged) enrolments and break the law or submit them, and be accused of voter fraud.

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Oct 15th, 2008 at 07:58 CDT

and i have said if the state does not require voter id to vote, yes they can get away with it.....the democrats fight to prevent states from requiring voter id to vote....look it up phil...

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Oct 15th, 2008 at 07:58 CDT

this is not the first year disney characters have been registered to vote....it has happened many times inthe past...

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Oct 15th, 2008 at 07:57 CDT

this is not the first year disney characters have been registered to vote....it has happened many times inthe past...

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Oct 15th, 2008 at 07:56 CDT

LINK.....underpaid or not it is wrong and some will slip through the cracks....as tight as this election is going to be, voter fraud of any kind can NOT be tolerated

Philgtaylor
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Australia

posted Oct 15th, 2008 at 04:39 CDT

Exactly. The people who are doing it are underpaid, and working to quota. So what do they do? They make up their quotas by filling in the names of Disney characters or sports teams.

Kookie.lee
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Australia

posted Oct 14th, 2008 at 21:56 CDT

I have a feeling that it was somebody making a cynical statement toward the way things are done in the US.  With the last election, problems with Bush for the second time around, my friends in Ohio began to refer to it as 'Mickey Mouse elections'.  They'd say "Why bother voting - it's just a Mickey Mouse election anyway."  I doubt if anybody planned on actually showing up under that name.

Philgtaylor
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Australia

posted Oct 14th, 2008 at 19:45 CDT

Such a vote is unusable. I have said this numerous times. If somebody comes up to a polling station and is registered as Mickey Mouse, then they would immediately be redflagged. Polls workers are not that stupid. Things have to change, because the current system is encouraging workers to register people without regard to whether or not they are eligible, and therefore make bogus registrations.

Kookie.lee
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Australia

posted Oct 14th, 2008 at 15:10 CDT

Although I do see a sort of twisted cynical humour in it, as I was just talking about not writing him in as a candidate.  Has Charlie Brown registered yet?  (It's getting ridiculous)

 
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