By: Dave Astor Bob Koehler is one of the few syndicated columnists to have regularly written about Republican voting shenanigans in recent years. So when it comes to GOP voting-fraud allegations against ACORN, he knows about "the pot calling the kettle black."
"Consider the sudden enemy status accorded the national community organization ACORN, which has helped some 1.3 million people -- low-income, young and minority -- register to vote this year," the Tribune Media Services columnist says in piece released today.
"For its trouble, the organization was raided by police in Las Vegas and seriously challenged in Missouri, Ohio, and elsewhere by the very officials who ought to be thanking them for expanding the reach of democracy.
"At issue were a small number of duplicate or improperly filled out registration forms, inevitable in any operation on such a large scale, which the organization flagged when it submitted the forms to state boards of election.
So why is the GOP making a big deal of this? Koehler says doing so "stokes the Republican base the same way calling Barack Obama a terrorist does" and "creates a 'false equivalence,' as [OpEdNews contributor] Kenneth Anderson put it, with the vote fraud and suppression tactics the GOP is in fact using -- by purging voter rolls and many other means -- to keep as many Democrats as possible from voting this year."
Also, slamming ACORN "serves the cause of vote suppression by creating a voting climate of chaos and duress," comments the columnist.
Koehler's complete column can be seen
here.
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