voter fraud
voter fraud is a very specific thing. you have to turn in a ballot for someone other than yourself. registering mickey mouse to vote isn't technically voter fraud. it's clearly a crime. or should be. mailing in an absentee ballot for mickey mouse... that's voter fraud. showing up at the polling station with id stating you're mickey mouse and casting a ballot... that's voter fraud. acorn pays people $8/hour to register voters. we have pretty solid numbers on how many suspicious registrations acorn turns in. why? cause acorn screens them and flags them and and turns them in and publishes the numbers themselves. why in the world would they turn in obviously bogus registration forms? heh. they're required to by law. they fire employees who for whatever reason think it's funny to register mickey mouse. or are too lazy to actually do the work they're getting paid to do. which makes sense. bogus registrations don't help acorn promote its liberal causes. specifically, mickey mouse doesn't actually get to vote. and acorn isn't getting what it paid for.
this cnn article brings up one more point i hadn't thought of. voter registration fraud doesn't affect elections. however, shutting down voter registration organizations does.