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Both sides gird for legal challenges in US election
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-10-25 11:52 Fake Registrations But it is the revelation that ACORN workers faked thousands of voter registrations that has sparked Republican fury. ACORN workers have been accused of registering the starting line-up of the Dallas Cowboys football team in Nevada and of "Jimmy Johns," a sandwich shop, in Lake County, Indiana.
ACORN has said it flags all suspicious registrations and that it has fired workers who fake voter cards. "The problem is our temp workers who are trying to defraud ACORN by pretending to do work that they have not done," ACORN spokesman Charles Jackson told Reuters. Republican leaders, radio and cable talk show hosts and conservative bloggers have pounced on the ACORN case. In a letter on Thursday to US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the co-chairmen of McCain's election committee said that some false registrations, such as "Mickey Mouse", would be easy to catch and thus no threat to the election. However, they worried others, including duplicate registrations, could slip through, especially in states that do not require photo identification to vote. "The nightmare scenario we fear is that the 2008 election will be a rerun of 2000 and, if the election is as close as many expect, neither side will concede to the other on election night," co-chairmen John Danforth and Warren Rudman wrote. But Ohio's Democratic governor, Ted Strickland, has accused Republicans of trying to intimidate legitimate voters registered by ACORN from trying to vote. A spokeswoman for Common Cause, a nonprofit citizen's group, agreed, and warned the escalation of anti-ACORN rhetoric is a sure sign legal challenges will come immediately after the election if the race turns out to be close. |
