The folks who registered Snow White, Bugs Bunny, and other characters to vote will now be able to fake tens of thousands of names when they "help" the Commerce Department take the census next year:
The U.S. Census is supposed to be free of politics, but one group with a history of voter fraud, ACORN, is participating in next year's count, raising concerns about the politicization of the decennial survey.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now signed on as a national partner with the U.S. Census Bureau in February 2009 to assist with the recruitment of the 1.4 million temporary workers needed to go door-to-door to count every person in the United States -- currently believed to be more than 306 million people.
A U.S. Census "sell sheet," an advertisement used to recruit national partners, says partnerships with groups like ACORN "play an important role in making the 2010 Census successful," including by "help[ing] recruit census workers."
The bureau is currently employing help from more than 250 national partners, including TARGET and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), to assist in the hiring effort.
But ACORN's partnership with the 2010 Census is worrisome to lawmakers who say past allegations of fraud should raise concerns about the organization.
"It's a concern, especially when you look at all the different charges of voter fraud. And it's not just the lawmakers' concern. It should be the concern of every citizen in the country," Rep. Lynn A. Westmoreland, R-Ga., vice ranking member of the subcommittee for the U.S. Census, told FOXNews.com. "We want an enumeration. We don't want to have any false numbers."
Of course, the whole point of the census for the Obama administration is not to get an accurate count of Americans but rather not to "undercount" minorities and illegal aliens. Hiring ACORN assures the government that by hook or by crook, every single minority will be counted - at least once.
This means billions of dollars more for cities who will discover tens of thousands of new "clients" to make dependent on government. It will also mean a little different redistricting that may end up giving Democrats a few more safe seats in the 2012 election.
If someone had told me 4 years ago that ACORN would be a partner with the government doing anything, I would have laughed at them for being crazy. Now the inmates are running the asylum and it's not funny anymore.
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