Posted by
Patrick Henry on Saturday, October 18, 2008 10:02:07 PM
Liberals are decrying complaints about fraudulent voter registrations by the Asociation of
Communities for Reform Now as a meaningless distraction born of Republican desperation.
Voter registration fraud, they argue, does not mean that illegal votes will actually be cast and
counted. They are lying through their teeth, and they know it! The ACORN issue is actually
a VERY big deal, and there are three reasons why.
First, illegal registration does often lead to ballots being illegally cast. New Mexico has recently
proved that beyond the shadow of a doubt, showing that a third of ballots already cast in one
particular district are fraudulent. All of these bogus votes track back to ACORN submitted
registrations. It is simply another form of identity theft. One registers under someone else's
name, then votes absentee or goes to a polling place where standards enforcement is lax and
real identification is not required and voila, voter registration fraud has become vote fraud.
ACORN claims they have registered 1.3 million new voters in the last year. How many of them
are bogus, or how many will actually translate into criminal election acts are not known. But
how many votes does it take to tip the scales in a battleground state like Ohio?
Second, voter registration fraud is a criminal act, in and of itself. ACORN canvassers, a
significant number of them convicted felons, have already engaged in bribery, using cash
and drugs to induce the same people to register over and over. That's a court documented
fact. Others have sat in libraries filling out registrations in the names of Mickey Mouse,
Mary Poppins, Duran Duran, Leon Spinks and the like, or just randomly copying names
from phone books. Again, not conjecture, but court documented fact.
Third, what does it say to you that a campaign -- in the face of all this evidence of criminal
wrongdoing -- sends their lawyer out to the media to decry an FBI investigation into ACORN
as a Republican misuse of law enforcement? This is the same lawyer who wrote threatening
letters to TV stations airing the NRA commercial against his candidate, Barack Obama. His
name is Bob Bauer. But if ACORN has done nothing wrong and if, as Obama claims, their
campaign has no real ties to ACORN, then what are they so afraid of? Election law is
neither Repiublican, nor Democrat. It is simply the law of the land. So what does it say that
one campaign thinks the law so unimportant that they would deny the highest investigative
service in the land the liberty to find out what's going on? Do you think the Obama people
have something to hide? This doesn't even come close to passing the "smell test" and Mr.
Bauer's lame protests reek to high heaven. Now what is Obama hiding?
Third, if ACORN, through their army of thugs, is perpetrating fraud on the electoral process,
what does it say to you about a campaugn and a candidate identified so closely with them,
and for whom they are unabashedly urging their new registrants to vote? What does it suggest
when a Democratic official -- Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner -- allows people to
register and vote on the same day, then spends taxpayer money running to one court after
another to ensure that no one will be required to verify the legality and legitimacy of those
votes? While the fine print is as yet unreadable, the headline clearly says "ELECTION
RIGGING." Barack Obama doesn't want ACORN investigated because he knows they're
dirty, and if the FBI proves it the pile of dominoes will eventually tumble right back into
his lap. When a man is so desperate to seize power that even the law of the land no longer
matters to him, what does that say about his fitness to govern?
The unlawful shenanigans of ACORN and their kindred ilk will wind up costing the taxpayers
millions of dollars to unravel, and could wind up once again either tilting an election or throwing
it into the judicial system. It doesn't have to happen Why should we let it?
ACORN voter fraud is a very big deal! Don't let the liberal thugocracy convince you
otherwise. Let's eliminate voter fraud, and let's not put a fraud in the White House.