BAM's Vote - Fraud Buddies

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BAM'S VOTE-FRAUD BUDDIES
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October 11, 2008
Ohio. Nevada. Connecticut. Indiana. Michigan. Missouri. New Mexico. North Carolina. Wisconsin. That's the list of states where investigations are under way into allegations of fraud in the new-voter registrations collected by Barack Obama's preferred collection of "community organizers," the radical extremists of ACORN. In some cases, however, ACORN is getting some high-placed help - from the (Democratic) state officials whose job should include uncovering voting fraud.

In Ohio, for example, a federal judge ruled that Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is violating the law by refusing to allow county election boards to verify the identities of voters newly registered by ACORN. "It is hard to imagine a public interest more compelling than safeguarding the legitimacy of the election of the president of the United States," ruled Judge George Smith. But Brunner - who's appointed an ACORN rep to one of her advisory committees - claims that the complaints are just "allegations that don't have any evidence to support them."

This despite the reports by The Post's Jeane MacIntosh, who in Ohio's Cuyahoga County found one 19-year-old who admitted he'd registered to vote 72 times with ACORN in return for cash and cigarettes - a felony in that state. Two other voters told MacIntosh that ACORN persuaded them into multiple registrations - one of them having signed up to vote "10 to 15" times. The Wall Street Journal reports that ACORN has registered new Buckeye voters who just happen to be named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey.
And that's just in Ohio.

In the Indianapolis metro area, ACORN has been so successful that the number of registered voters now stands at 105 percent of the voting-age population.

All in all, ACORN has filed 3 million new voter registrations since 2004 - more than enough votes to decide a close election.

And where do you suppose those votes collected by ACORN are going?

Consider:
* ACORN's political-action committee has endorsed Barack Obama.
* Obama's presidential campaign has paid an ACORN front $832,000 for get-out-the-vote activities.
* Before launching his electoral career, Obama was the Illinois coordinator for ACORN's voter-registration group, Project Vote.
* As a lawyer, Obama represented ACORN in a voter-registration suit against the state of Illinois.
* Michelle Obama's old law firm represents ACORN in an embezzlement cover-up case involving the brother of the group's founder.

To date, Obama's campaign has been silent about the ACORN connection, let alone the group's dubious voter-registration efforts. But that silence speaks volumes about the kind of company Obama keeps - and the lengths to which he and his allies apparently will go to win this election.

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