Following calls by a reform group known as the “ACORN 8,” many are rightly worried about the prospect of taxpayer money flowing to the scandal-plagued Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) for the stated purpose of counting Americans in the 2010 U.S. census.
After all, this is the same group that couldn’t count to “1” when registering voters during last year’s election. In Ohio, ACORN’s machine registered one man more than 70 separate times. But the group’s critics don’t face the same mathematical challenges. They have counted to at least 14 – the number of states investigating ACORN for voter registration and potential voter fraud. In the past month alone, the group has been named in complaints by at least two states.
