The McCain campaign accused ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) of voter fraud. They supposedly intentionally submitted invalid registration forms. ACORN has said that the forms they are talking about are ones that they had flagged. ACORN was said to be “on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter democracy” by John McCain. My personal opinion is that John McCain is blaming ACORN because he is behind in the polls.1

ACORN though shouldn't be at fault for voter registrations. They shouldn't be at fault because it is illegal for them to not turn in any voter registration forms. ACORN has flagged voter registration forms but election officials publicize them to bring it to voters attention. There is a past history of voter registration fraud from ACORN. 2005 Colorado Springs there were 73 cases, and a recent one of an ACORN Las Vegas office in the case, ACORN submitted over 1,800 new voter registration forms, and all but six of the 1,800 names were fake. More recently, 27,000 registrations handled by the group from January to July 2008.

Voter suppression is when the government or other organizations discourage or stop people from voting. I found this chart on the Union Tribune site of San Diego. The chart includes a list of 4,655 San Diegans whose registrations were rejected due to a number of reasons :

Form not signed
Printed name and signature do not match
No birthday provided and over 18 box not filled
Incomplete signature(first name)
Too young( over 18 more than a year)
1st name only provided and cannot read signature and phone number either not provided or not good
Incomplete residence address phone number not good
Out of country
Printed Signature
Business address
Foreign born and citizenship bubble not filled

the thing though is that what if it wasnt the persons fault what if the person gave the right information but the person who was filling it out was the person that made the mistake. These are questions that have been bought up.