I, personally, have never heard a word of ACORN in our organization. We have our hands full with election reform in Cook County and DuPage County. To my knowledge, we don't work *directly* with any voter registration groups. We simply don't have the time.

We devote most of our time trying to change legislation and alerting the public to flaws within our electoral process and those who run it. All of us our volunteers who work a handful of hours weekly trying to insure that our votes are counted.

I hope all this noise will lead to a full investigation of all voter registration issues which are being addressed now. Reality, facts and documentation often prove a much different picture from the noise machine. Repeating a lie loudly doesn't make it true. For example, were you aware that ACORN itself set aside these problematic voter registration forms and brought them to the attention of election officials? By law, ACORN or any other group which registers voters are not allowed to discard ANY completed voter registration forms and must present them to an election authority. However, they are allowed to set aside any which don't appear authentic and flag them to officials.

Well, these election officials chose just to state that ACORN had turned in suspicious forms, neglecting to mention that it was ACORN itself which had flagged them. Mentioning this didn't fit an agenda, so... Context is a wonderful thing.

Were you aware that there is an investigation in the U.S. House regarding the firing of U.S. attorneys after the 2004 election? Some of these attorneys state that they were wrongfully fired because they refused to criminalize members of ACORN in their region. These attorneys were pressured to do so, yet they found there was nothing there, so they refused. So, the DOJ fired them. It certainly makes one wonder about the U.S. attorneys who weren't fired... The findings from this investigation will not be pretty.

All the noise of voter fraud in the 2004 election proved not to be true -- only a handful actually were found to commit voter fraud. My definition of handful is literal; it was not in the thousands or the hundreds, but in the tens nationwide. By the way, the LAST place an illegal alien wishes to be on election day is a polling place. For them to vote leads to immediate deportation. The several who do show up are usually due to a language barrier; someone shoved something in their face to sign and/or told them to show up at a polling place. I don't speak a second language, so I can understand how miscommunication might occur.

Election fraud is not the same as voter fraud. Election fraud has the potential of affecting millions of votes. We focus on election fraud.

If you despise the voting machines, please join our cause.

Jean Kaczmarek, co-chair
Illinois Ballot Integrity Project, DuPage Chapter

Jean,

You called, I answered.

On the issue of voting machines, I despise them. Paper ballots with dots and scanners is the way to go.

My hat is off to you for responding on the boards!

Does your organization have any opinion on Acorn and allowing people to register with no identification?

Viva Barak!

Anon

Anon on,

Thank you for bringing up Hugo Chavez.

Several members of our organization vigorously tried to prevent the Illinois State Board of Elections' certification of Sequoia voting systems and the subsequent vote for these machines by Chicago and Cook County. At the time of the certification and purchase, Sequoia was owned by Smartmatic Corp., a private company owned by Venezuelan investors.

This is not a matter of right or left. It is a matter of right and wrong.

Please have the courage to stand by your convictions and criticisms. Use your real name if you wish to engage in a discussion.

Thank you,

Jean Kaczmarek, co-chair
Illinois Ballot Integrity Project, DuPage Chapter

Jean,

Listening to Liberals screaming fraud is like hearing Jack the Ripper scream RAPE!

Obama's first 100 days:

1. Income redistribution, like Hugo Chavez

2. Nationalized Health Care, like Hugo Chavez

3. Amnesty and voter registration drive for illegals aliens, like Hugo Chavez.

4. Severely limiting the right to own arms, like Hugo Chavez

5. Silence the opposing media by passing the Fairness Doctrine requiring radio stations to give time away to liberals that no one wants to listen too. We got enough in school, on the TV, in print media and in almost every movie Hollywood cranks out. Like Hugo Chavez.

When the economy nose dives as businesses are crushed by the government like Venezuela will Mr. Obama declare a State of Emergency to implement his "bold persistent experimentation"?

Bold experiments can include turning on the printing presses once the economic base collapses, nationalizing industries like Hugo, or seizure of private property to fund the State programs like a one time 50% tax on people’s savings in the banks.

Illinois Ballot Integrity Project urges citizens to vote on election day, Nov. 4th, if at all possible. With the exception of the 421 government building in Wheaton, those who cast votes at early voting sites have only one method of voting -- touch screens. These touch screens have been proven to lack security and accuracy.

Also, the DuPage County Election Commission has not included votes cast during early voting in the hand-count audit of the full random five percent of precincts mandated by the Illinois Election Code, nor does it include votes cast during early voting in full recounts of designated precincts. A candidate who requested the full recount of designated precincts was asked to pay an additional $250 per hour for about a week if he wished to include votes cast during early voting; he declined. Few local candidates could afford such a price. If it is too difficult and expensive for a voting method to comply with the law, then it's time for a different voting method.

Those who vote early are denied equal protection under the law.

SPREAD THE WORD: If at all possible, vote on election day and ask for a paper ballot. Above all, vote.

Jean Kaczmarek, co-chair
Illinois Ballot Integrity Project, DuPage Chapter

No way is there any reason to vote early. If something serious is learned about a candidate between now and election day, what do you do when you already voted?

Ya'll don't know, but you better recognize your right to vote. Naperville is going liberal, and the old crathedy farts that run this town are out of touch.

Give me a break. It's so freakin' rich here, we should have free healthcare and even better schooling.

Yo, check this: Adam Smith, ya'll know the Godfather of Capitalsim, even conceded that higher taxes to keep the upper bracket in check was the only way to balance out the system.

He said that capitalism can provide some unfair advantages.

So, in other words, read up and get your buts to the library. It's the only way. Peace.

I sure did and it was very crowded.

It seems like opening up the City Clerk's office for voting on Saturday's is a waste of taxpayer's hard earned money.

I am sure employees of the city clerk's office don't work free.

There was nothing wrong with the old system of voting manned mostly by volunteers from the neighborhood. We alrady have absentee voting for those who can not vote on the designated voting day.

I guess as someone once said, if government has money to burn, it will burn it!

Government ought to be thinking of fixing the broken pension system instead of providing all this extra time for voting. I am sure an equal number of both sides will have some difficulty voting so the effect will be NEUTRAL!

Deciding between a big government Socialist and a big government Marxist for Pres. is going to require some extra thought.

I will probably wait until the last minute and start spending time in Church requesting a miracle for the country.

Maybe China can save Capitalism.

Nope.