ACORN to assist in 2010 Census

This is not change I can believe in...

ACORN, a group Barack Obama worked with while he was a community organizer in Chicago, is back in the news.

I was hoping they'd fade away...no such luck. Fox News is covering this outrage.

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.

ACORN claims to be non-partisan, but it registers voters--sometimes more than once--almost exclusively in Democratic areas.

The results of the Census will be used to redraw Congressional districts.

Barack Obama's second of his three choices for Commerce secretary, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), withdrew his acceptance of that job after he learned that the White House, not Commerce, would be in charge of the decennial count.

ACORN is a bad nut and should have nothing to do with the Census.

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