ACORN and NY Times

NY times editorial page tackles ACORN false scandal. They are mostly on target. I couldn't resist posting a comment.

Here it is:

1% of 1.3 million registrations is 1,300.

Think of ACORN as a business, like hiring people at an airport to solicit credit card registrations.

And add the fact that all registration forms MUST be turned in. Otherwise, you can have canvassers collect registration forms, and then throw out all the Republican ones. Wouldn't that be bad? So, turning in all of them seems like a good idea.

And then those forms are checked by election officials to make sure they are correct. ACORN flags those forms it thinks are flawed. So, those 1,300 flawed (we do not know intent of person who filled them out, so I won't say fraudulent) are then weeded out. By two rounds of quality control: first by ACORN, and second, by the good-intentioned and hard-working election officials.

Isn't that, you know, the system WORKING?

And, how many service companies that process paperwork in our society have a 1% error rate?