The recent book by Wall Street Journal editor John Fund, "Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy," discusses the prevalence of voter fraud, made newly possible by lax enforcement of laws requiring identification to vote. As Fund indicates, the motor/voter laws have encouraged waves of new voters, many of them ineligible to participate. Let us remember that eight of the Sept. 11 hijackers were registered to vote!
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ACORN Could Cause Obama's Fall
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:04 PM
By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann Article Font Size
As
Obama lengthens his lead, the Republicans are praying that the election
becomes close enough for the Democrats not to steal. But meanwhile,
ACORN, the radical community group, is becoming an embarrassment for
Obama.
It is not as if its shenanigans are likely to tip the
result, with the Democrats so far ahead. But as it is raided by the FBI
in state after state (11 so far), it is becoming identified as the
electoral equivalent of Greenpeace, extremists who will stop at nothing
to get their way.
What makes ACORN particularly embarrassing
for Obama is that he used to be one of them. He served as general
counsel for ACORN in Illinois, channeled millions to the organization
from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (whose funds he distributed) and
has lately spent $800,000 of his campaign money to subsidize the group's
activities.
For this emolument, ACORN has registered voters
15 times over, canvassed the graveyards for votes, and prepared to
commit electoral fraud on a massive scale.
With friends like
this, Obama doesn't need enemies. As their radical activities make
headlines every day, Obama's intimate involvement with these radicals
becomes more and more of a political liability.
The other
Obama scandals have no topical relevance. The Rev. Wright no longer
spews hatred from the pulpit and has apparently been persuaded to stay
away from media interviews. William Ayers is likewise making himself
scarce, and the Obama/Ayers relationship, whatever it may have been, is
clearly in the past.
Rezko is facing sentencing in his own
corruption case, but isn't likely to turn on the one man who may acquire
the power to pardon him.
But, as Election Day approaches
and early balloting proceeds in many states, ACORN's tactics will get
more and more media attention. As election officials discover ACORN
frauds, the association will become more injurious to Obama,
particularly when it is his own campaign that is funding many of the
fraudulent activities.
At the very least, the negative
publicity ACORN will attract will paint Obama as a radical with
questionable judgment. At the most, it might cause voters to wonder if
he is not himself involved in electoral fraud.
The recent
book by Wall Street Journal editor John Fund, "Stealing Elections: How
Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy," discusses the prevalence of voter
fraud, made newly possible by lax enforcement of laws requiring
identification to vote. As Fund indicates, the motor/voter laws have
encouraged waves of new voters, many of them ineligible to participate.
Let us remember that eight of the Sept. 11 hijackers were registered to
vote!
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