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ACORN May Have Surpassed Itself (But CNN is On the Case)

Jimmie | October 14, 2008 | Comments (0)

The ACORN Tally goes higher and higher. In Lake County, Indiana, every single registration of the first 2,100 election officials saw were fraudulent.

Think about that. How many fraudulent forms had to be submitted in order for all of the first 2,100 to be bad?

CNN’s Drew Griffin is pretty much the only one out there beyond a few bloggers doing any in-depth investigation of ACORN’s criminal acts. I’d say you can move him to the bottom of the People Likely to become Obama White House Spokesman list.

Allah has a post on this also and asks:

Serious exit question: How, precisely, do people think ACORN’s going to influence the election? The worry, as I’ve understood it, is that the race will narrow and we’ll end up a la 2000 in a cliffhanger with one or two counties in some swing state deciding who wins. In that scenario, a few thousand phony votes would be monumental. Judging from some of the e-mail we’re getting, though, true believers think something bigger’s going on, as though an Obama win by a few percentage points — which would mean a margin of a few million votes — would be inherently shady. Explain to me how ACORN’s supposedly planning to convert these bogus registrations into actual bogus votes on a mass scale.

I’ve already answered that question. Here, I think, is a better question: Why is ACORN being so blatant about what it’s doing? Surely the folks at the top realize that they are exposing themselves more and more to potential prosecution – perhaps even a RICO investigation which would be a serious blow to the organization. Why have they, by all appearances, put the pedal to the floor on this?

I think it’s because they don’t care if anyone sees them committing fraud or not. All that is sufficient is that they erode public confidence in the electoral system. A few million bad registrations that clog the local election boards and keep valid registrations from being validated in time will accomplish that goal very well. And if they go to jail, well, that’s no big deal. Remember, the guy who founded ACORN wasn’t exactly a stranger to the notion of doing stuff that would land him in prison.