Voting Could Be A Waste of Time!!!

Revised 10/30/08

The two issues that I am discussing are the Acorn scandal which is about creating fake identities and using them to vote in the 2008 presidential election. The other issues is voter suppression which is a group of people finding ways around the government and stopping people from voting due to the fact that they may not have an I.D. to prove who they are.

When randy was talking about it in class I discovered that the acorn Scandal really isn’t a big issue. Because when I researched into it I found out the company wasn’t doing any crimes because when they register people they can’t deny a registration form. Only inform the election offices who pass the final call. This surprised me because if the majority voting are democratic and the people at the election office are republican they would inform McCain’s people to try and make a big deal out of it.

When looking into voter suppression and the acorn scandal I found it to be surprising that McCain and the Republicans would go through the trouble to have low income neighborhoods or cities investigated by officials, and denying them the right to vote because most of the people were aided by the Acorn Company which gets people registered to vote. Apparently the company was also creating fake identities to vote with.

All favoritism aside I would have to say what the republicans are doing is terrible and as John McCain say’s “destroying the fabric of democracy” it is far worse than the Acorn issue, the republicans and McCain are actually using the Acorn scandal as a of suppressing the votes.

When finding out this was going on I felt hurt that the government would even stand for this, unless they are actually behind the whole issue. I feel that if we continue on the same path that the country as we know it could fall apart.



sources:
washington post
examiner
google news