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Missouri loses lawsuit to ACORN

fff

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Shocking! Shocking, I say. :lol: :lol:

The State of Missouri agreed Thursday to pay $450,000 to a community organizing group to help settle a voter registration lawsuit it filed last year.

The money would pay lawyers hired by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, in its suit against the Missouri Department of Social Services.

In the settlement, filed in federal court, the department agreed to establish procedures ensuring that the state helps low-income and disabled people register to vote when they visit social service offices.

A national voter registration act, called the “motor-voter” law, requires public aid agencies offering food stamps and Medicaid to provide clients with the chance to register to vote and to help them.

ACORN filed its suit in April 2008, alleging that the state wasn’t meeting its obligations under the law. Three months later, a federal judge ordered the state to begin taking concrete steps to help its clients register to vote.

Since then, the state has taken extraordinary steps to comply with the federal law, said Jon Greenbaum, legal director at the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which represented ACORN.

“The lawsuit has led to a 2,000 percent increase in the number of people registering to vote at Missouri public assistance agencies,” Greenbaum said. “We appreciate that since they’ve been under court order, Missouri’s Department of Social Services has been a national model in showing how to implement this law.”

Under the settlement, the department agreed to appoint a state-wide voter registration coordinator to advise local offices about their obligations, track compliance and provide them with registration forms.

The settlement also establishes detailed procedures that local offices must follow to offer voter registration to their clients. The state also must keep logs of completed voter registration forms sent to local election boards.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1279572.html
 
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Anonymous

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Sandhusker said:
Why do they have to push people to register at public assistance places and not, say, country clubs?

If those old rich white Republicans at the country club would let them past the gate (besides for caddying/greenkeeping)- they'd probably register them too.....
 

hypocritexposer

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maybe what is needed is a conservative funded and biased organization to balance the scales.

Split the government funding down the middle, and regulate their actions.
 

Sandhusker

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Oldtimer said:
Sandhusker said:
Why do they have to push people to register at public assistance places and not, say, country clubs?

If those old rich white Republicans at the country club would let them past the gate (besides for caddying/greenkeeping)- they'd probably register them too.....

You completely missed my point.

You haven't noticed that these groups that masquarade as being concerned about people voting are only concerned about registering those most likely to vote for liberals?
 
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Sandhusker said:
Oldtimer said:
Sandhusker said:
Why do they have to push people to register at public assistance places and not, say, country clubs?

If those old rich white Republicans at the country club would let them past the gate (besides for caddying/greenkeeping)- they'd probably register them too.....

You completely missed my point.

You haven't noticed that these groups that masquarade as being concerned about people voting are only concerned about registering those most likely to vote for liberals?

Did you ever notice which folks were being kept from the polls in some of these states that required the passage of all these voting rights bills... Sure wasn't the country club sector...
 
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Anonymous

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Sandhusker said:
What's the use of registering them to vote if the're being kept away from the polls?

They aren't supposed to be anymore-- but it took laws like this to get it to happen.....
 

Sandhusker

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Oldtimer said:
Sandhusker said:
What's the use of registering them to vote if the're being kept away from the polls?

They aren't supposed to be anymore-- but it took laws like this to get it to happen.....

How can you be so gullible, OT? This horsecrap isn't about getting people to vote just for the sake of voting. It's all about getting people registered who are most likely to vote liberal so that they will vote for Democrats. ACORN is treating these people like whores, just using them to keep the people in power that send them money. If liberals had any scruples, ACORN would be a source of shame, not pride.
 

hypocritexposer

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If ACORN is such a reputable organization, why are they changing their name?

fff, are you a paid up member, OT how bout you.

Why won't anyone admit to being a member of such a reputable organization?
 
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Sandhusker said:
Oldtimer said:
Sandhusker said:
What's the use of registering them to vote if the're being kept away from the polls?

They aren't supposed to be anymore-- but it took laws like this to get it to happen.....

How can you be so gullible, OT? This horsecrap isn't about getting people to vote just for the sake of voting. It's all about getting people registered who are most likely to vote liberal so that they will vote for Democrats. ACORN is treating these people like whores, just using them to keep the people in power that send them money. If liberals had any scruples, ACORN would be a source of shame, not pride.

If the rightwingernut radicals hadn't tried to prevent these people from trying to vote-- you wouldn't have got these laws in the firstplace... Like usual government always overreacts....
 
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Anonymous

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Sandhusker said:
How were they trying to keep people from voting?

Overly stringent residency rules/proof, property ownership proof, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, whites-only primaries...Some like Alabama even had literacy tests....
 

hypocritexposer

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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1004349/whites-only-primary

did an internet search did ya, from 1965. And your argument is that Republicans are refusing the African Americans the vote, I suppose.

they are being used as a tool towards a liberal agenda. Remember I mentioned that habit of re-writing history?

* Voting Rights Act ( in Voting Rights Act (United States [1965]) )

...As whites came to dominate state legislatures once again, legislation was used to strictly circumscribe the right of African Americans to vote. Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, whites-only primaries, and other measures disproportionately disqualified African Americans from voting. The result was that by the early 20th century nearly all African Americans were disfranchised....

The bill was reported out of the Judiciary Committee in November 1963, and referred to the Rules Committee, whose chairman, Howard W. Smith, a Democrat from Virginia, indicated his intention to keep the bill bottled up indefinitely

The bill was brought to a vote in the House on February 10, 1964, and passed by a vote of 290 to 130, and sent to the Senate.

The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and the "Southern Bloc" of southern Senators led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage. Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."[5]

The original House version:[9]

* Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%)
* Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)

The Senate version:[9]

* Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%)
* Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:[9]

* Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
* Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%)

More sins and guilt projected onto your political adversaries, be proud OT, very proud.
 

aplusmnt

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Sandhusker said:
Why do they have to push people to register at public assistance places and not, say, country clubs?

No reason to try to discuss something with fff, she does not stick around and discuss anything. She just does drive by post and then goes away for long time. Best we just ignore her instead of giving her the benefit of a reply.

I think she may be in Prison and only gets computer time 5 minutes a week or something like that.
 

hypocritexposer

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate purported wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying ?powers that be? put the kibosh on the idea.

Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, earlier bucked his party leaders by calling for hearings on accusations the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) has committed crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style "protection" racket.

"The powers that be decided against it," Mr. Conyers told The Washington Times as he left the House chambers Wednesday.

"Chairman Conyers has a responsibility to explain who is blocking this investigation, and why. Is it Speaker Pelosi? Others in the Democratic leadership? Who in Congress is covering up ACORN's corruption?" said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican.
 

Sandhusker

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Oldtimer said:
Sandhusker said:
How were they trying to keep people from voting?

Overly stringent residency rules/proof, property ownership proof, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, whites-only primaries...Some like Alabama even had literacy tests....

You're bringing up ancient practices to justify what ACORN is doing today? Come on.... All of the above were long gone before ACORN even appeared.
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Sandhusker said:
How were they trying to keep people from voting?

Overly stringent residency rules/proof, property ownership proof, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, whites-only primaries...Some like Alabama even had literacy tests....

Voting should be treated as a privilege, not a right. If it were a right, even hardcore criminals could vote. ( I think they do in some states but not everywhere.)

Scotus has ruled that way.

Literacy should be a requirement to vote.

Back when Alabama had a literacy test, it was a very easy matter to register as literate. All you had to do was be able to count to 20, know the first Pres'. name and maybe even recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Many couldn't that had graduated from high school. :roll:

We also had Poll taxes that paid for elections. It was $3.50 per year. I still have some receipts.

Added to these requirements, anyone who votes should be able to prove that they pay more into the system than they take out....Taxes, etc.

Plus, all you had to do, way back when, to prove residency......... is show a receipt from a utility company.

Yep that was when they were screaming about voters rights, and not being able to vote.
 

fff

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Sandhusker said:
Oldtimer said:
Sandhusker said:
How were they trying to keep people from voting?

Overly stringent residency rules/proof, property ownership proof, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, whites-only primaries...Some like Alabama even had literacy tests....

You're bringing up ancient practices to justify what ACORN is doing today? Come on.... All of the above were long gone before ACORN even appeared.

Apparently this court didn't agree. :lol:
 

Sandhusker

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fff said:
Sandhusker said:
Oldtimer said:
Overly stringent residency rules/proof, property ownership proof, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, whites-only primaries...Some like Alabama even had literacy tests....

You're bringing up ancient practices to justify what ACORN is doing today? Come on.... All of the above were long gone before ACORN even appeared.

Apparently this court didn't agree. :lol:

The court didn't rule on the law making any sense or not (which it doesn't), but whether it was being followed or not. :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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