Ironically, the only coverage I'm finding in the national media which exonerates ACORN in this way is Fox News with this report.  Fox probably doesn't even understand the implication of its own reporting, but we can thank them nevertheless.

Barkley said he was approached multiple times by ACORN workers while sitting in a public square. He said the group's solicitors told him they were getting paid by the name to sign up voters.

   "I 'd be like, 'No, I'm already registered,'" Barkley said.

   "Then they just asked me again, like, 'I need a job, I'm just trying to hold on to a job. So would you sign it for me? I need 25 or more. I need a certain amount of them.' So me being the kind-hearted person, I say, 'Yeah.'

   "I didn't know that I'd have to be in here for this," Barkley said.

So unless these employees were working overtime on their own to ensure that the fraudulent voters would show up to vote, there's no institutional corruption. Now, how do you screen people to register voters? Well, you start by not hiring people who have been convicted of identity fraud (very few, but a highlight in the story).

This is now something for Republicans to be righteous about and claim the election was stolen from them, but when you look at the actual facts, there's no there there.