This morning, FOX news hyped a press conference that was to be held by ACORN. This was a National Press Conference set to talk about the voter registration irregularity issue.
They hyped it all morning (bill hemmer and meygan kelly) and when the conference began, the President of ACORN slammed FOX news for irresponsible reporting of the facts.
Kevin Whalen, spokesman for ACORN slammed FOX for mis-reporting the facts from each state. He also slammed the reporters from FOX for manufacturing the incidents or blowing them out of porportion.
As soon as ACORN began to dig into FOX, FOX news pulled out of the conference and moved on to another story.
ACORN made clear that they only accept an "application" for registration and not registrations themselves. If a person puts in multiple "applications" for registration, they are caught by ACORN and separated.
It was ACORN that has caught all the irregularities in voter registration aplications.
FOX news was slammed for partisan news reporting and distorting records of fact.
FOX stayed in the conference for about 4 mins before yanking it off the air, and those who wanted to hear the entire conference had to switch to CSPAN2 as I did.
ACORN spelled out all there policies and proceedures. They spent extensive time explaining how the application process works.
The number of irregularities is small to non exsistent in comparision to the total of new applications for registrations.
FOX news has been irresponsible in reporting and people should make note that THEY are the only ones who are covering the story.
Simply put, just because a person fills out multiple applications for registration, this does not mean they get that many votes, they are caught by the secretary of states are notified as these applications cannot be thrown away or discarded.
I found it humurous that FOX news who are running this story every 5 minutes 24 hours a day for 2 weeks now would not stick at the news conference to hear what ACORN had to say about the process and irregularities across the country.
Like cowards, they cut-away and never showed the rest of the conference.
Anyone who listened to the conference would have learned about the process and the detecting of irregularities. IT has been ACORN that has caught ALL IRREGULARITIES.
An embarrassing moment for FOX NEWS.
They hyped it all morning (bill hemmer and meygan kelly) and when the conference began, the President of ACORN slammed FOX news for irresponsible reporting of the facts.
Kevin Whalen, spokesman for ACORN slammed FOX for mis-reporting the facts from each state. He also slammed the reporters from FOX for manufacturing the incidents or blowing them out of porportion.
As soon as ACORN began to dig into FOX, FOX news pulled out of the conference and moved on to another story.
ACORN made clear that they only accept an "application" for registration and not registrations themselves. If a person puts in multiple "applications" for registration, they are caught by ACORN and separated.
It was ACORN that has caught all the irregularities in voter registration aplications.
FOX news was slammed for partisan news reporting and distorting records of fact.
FOX stayed in the conference for about 4 mins before yanking it off the air, and those who wanted to hear the entire conference had to switch to CSPAN2 as I did.
ACORN spelled out all there policies and proceedures. They spent extensive time explaining how the application process works.
The number of irregularities is small to non exsistent in comparision to the total of new applications for registrations.
FOX news has been irresponsible in reporting and people should make note that THEY are the only ones who are covering the story.
Simply put, just because a person fills out multiple applications for registration, this does not mean they get that many votes, they are caught by the secretary of states are notified as these applications cannot be thrown away or discarded.
I found it humurous that FOX news who are running this story every 5 minutes 24 hours a day for 2 weeks now would not stick at the news conference to hear what ACORN had to say about the process and irregularities across the country.
Like cowards, they cut-away and never showed the rest of the conference.
Anyone who listened to the conference would have learned about the process and the detecting of irregularities. IT has been ACORN that has caught ALL IRREGULARITIES.
An embarrassing moment for FOX NEWS.
H2007A man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties.2004A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.MN2004During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.PA2008An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.2004Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.TX2004ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.VA2005In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law. 
