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Last year several Acorn employees told me that the Acorn scandals that have cropped up around the country are no accident. "There's no quality control on purpose, no checks and balances," says Nate Toler, who was head of an Acorn campaign against Wal-Mart in California until late last year, when Acorn fired him for speaking to me.

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The truth of the matter is that these people simply filled out fake forms and sent them in, appearing to be doing work when they really were just sitting on their ass collecting money.

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Phred said:

ACORN is corrupt and in a sane world they'd have been indicted years ago under the RICO statutes for conspiracy to commit fraud.
Phred

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supernovasky said:

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But due to the nature of elections, it's not like one can make a career out of signing up voters.

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Precisely. Temp workers are what make ACORN so successful. These workers are paid by the hour, not by the # of aps, too, so there is no corporate motivation to fill out an overabundance of applications.

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supernovasky said:

I don't know where the law is

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(d)  Transmittal deadline
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a completed registration application accepted at a voter registration agency shall be transmitted to the appropriate State election official not later than 10 days after the date of acceptance.
(2) If a registration application is accepted within 5 days before the last day for registration to vote in an election, the application shall be transmitted to the appropriate State election official not later than 5 days after the date of acceptance.

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