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McCain's Epic Fail and ACORN | 14 comments (14 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: McCain's Epic Fail and ACORN (4.00 / 3)

ACORN doesn't pay people per registration, and that would be a bad idea.

Here is how it works.

I hire you and train you to do voter registration (including role-playing). Then I take you out with me to knock doors. At first, you just watch and learn. Then I let you do the talking for a while. When I think you've got the hang of it, I give you some turf and send you out on your own. I pay you an hourly wage, or a shift wage (usually 4 hours).

I tell you that you need to get 20 registrations a shift. But that's more than all but the best people can consistently accomplish. A good employee will consistently get 10-12.

If you fail to quickly get up to 10-12, I'll but you on probation and give you more training (role-playing) and maybe even go out with you for a shift to help your skills.

So, what happens is that the employees are feeling a lot of pressure to get 10-12, and they also don't want to disappoint me. Maybe they have a bad day and get only 4 registrations. They're tempted to pad it with a couple bogus ones. If they're on probation, they'll do anything to keep the job. You have to hammer into their minds that the quickest way to lose their job is to commit fraud, but some will do it anyway out of desperation. Pretty much my entire workforce was living hand-to-mouth, and no one had a driver's license. Paying work is very hard to come by in these neighborhoods, and the work ethic is not exactly stellar.

But, no, we didn't pay per registration.

by BooMan on Thu Oct 16th, 2008 at 02:52:11 PM EST
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Re: McCain's Epic Fail and ACORN (none / 0)

Thanks for the explanation. That's good - that type of system sounds like it's less prone to fraud than the one we thought was being used. But someone has been spreading a lot of misinformation around our local news-o-sphere (surprise!), because here in Ohio people are under the impression that pay is dependent on per-registration. I'm plugged in pretty good and this is the first explanation I've seen of it working this way. I could swear I heard it described as a "per registration" payment even on Air America radio - or at the very least the description they gave didn't make me immediately rule out that description.

(As a related note - I wish that liberal groups would get a bit savvier about working the media. They'll never be as good as conservatives because conservative groups don't do anything BUT work the media, but it never seems like liberal groups are good at PR or spin at all, and so there's little push-back when the conservative groups start their pushes.)

by nonynony on Thu Oct 16th, 2008 at 07:46:24 PM EST
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