The Background: ACORN just completed largest voter registration drive in Missouri, collecting over 77,000 cards across the state. About 3 weeks ago, stories started hitting the wire services and the right-wing blogosphere about accusing the voter registration program of submitting fraudulent cards numbering in the thousands. While there may be some cases of vr circulators padding their numbers with false cards, most of the cards under investigation are legitimate. But the right-wing is using these accusations as a means of discrediting progressive efforts to boost turnout in the upcoming election. ACORN is targeting over 400,000 voters for mobilization on Election Day, most of whom are low-propensity and drop-off voters. In other words, people who wouldn't vote without this targeted program. Obviously this threatens right-wing efforts in Missouri. So the GOP Regsitrar of Elections in St. Louis, a political appointee of Gov. Blunt, has implemented a program designed to disrupt ACORN's work. On Saturday, the St. Louis Post Dispatch is publishing a story that shows that not only is the Registrar's office attempting to disenfranchise 5000 of ACORN's registrants's by throwing up additional barriers before adding the to the rolls, but they have put the chief ACORN accuser, a fired employee, on the payroll of the registrar's office. Clearly this is a set-up, a GOP dirty trick implemented because they know they can't win in Missouri legitimately. When the story comes out I'll provide a link in this posting. In the meantime here is a link to ACORN (http://www.acorn.org) and to another story of the use of political power to disrupt ACORN's electoral participation work in this election. (http://www.chieforganizer.org/index.php ?id=57&no_cache=1&tx_eeblog[poin ter]=0&tx_eeblog[showUid]=1569)