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John McCanine or Bark Obama?

November 2, 2008 – 6:49 pm by R. Gilbert

Who is it going to be? Jack Russell, spokesdog for PetStyle and self-described “nonpartisan leg lifter,” points out that thousands of his friends have been registered by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

“What did come as a surprise to pets everywhere is that we can’t actually vote in this election,” said Jack. “This is especially shocking since ACORN has already registered thousands with the name Rex, Buddy, Fido, Fluffy and Princess.”

Some people are laughing this off, claiming that fraudulent registrations do not translate into actual votes. Maybe Fluffy and Fido won’t be voting, but that does not mean there is not already evidence of massive voter fraud in the 2008 presidential election.

Here’s an item from this morning’s Kansas City Star:

FBI launches probe into ACORN over voter registrations
WASHINGTON — A day after John McCain charged that the liberal-leaning voter registration group ACORN “may be perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history,” it was disclosed Thursday that the FBI is investigating whether the group coordinated the filing of phony applications.

Columnist Phil Valentine, writing for today’s The Tennessean, has this to say:

State does nothing about vote fraud under its nose
Voter fraud has been so rampant in the early voting leading up to this election that it will be a miracle if we get anything close to an accurate count.

ACORN has been at the epicenter of much of this voter fraud, yet Barack Obama has tried to distance himself from them. He looked right into the camera in the last presidential debate and told the American people, “The only involvement I’ve had with ACORN was I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a motor voter law.” We now know that was a lie.

This past week, a former ACORN employee testified in a Pennsylvania courtroom that her group used Obama’s campaign donor list to solicit contributions. We also know that Citizens Consulting Inc., the umbrella group over ACORN, received more than $800,000 from Obama to get out the vote in several primary states. Obama knew this when he was asked about ACORN in the debate. Instead of coming clean, he chose to lie.

ACORN is the key to the voter fraud schemes. Even on the West Coast, charges have been brought against ACORN employees for voter registration fraud:

7 charged with voter registration fraud
SEATTLE (AP) – King County prosecutors filed felony charges Thursday against seven people in what a top official described as the worst case of voter-registration fraud in state history, while the organization they worked for agreed to keep a better eye on its employees and pay $25,000 to defray costs of the investigation.

The seven submitted about 1,800 registration cards last fall on behalf of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which had hired them at $8 an hour to sign people up to vote, according to charging documents filed in Superior Court.

Secretary of State Sam Reed told a news conference it was clearly Washington’s most serious instance of voter registration fraud.

“This was an act of vandalism upon the voter rolls of King County,” said Dan Satterberg, the interim King County prosecutor.

ACORN, founded in 1970, has run voter registration drives across the country, with allegations of fraudulent registrations surfacing in several states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri and Colorado in recent years.

It is already November 3 in Australia, and potential voter fraud is a topic in the Sydney Morning Herald:

Even a homeless Mickey Mouse can vote in Ohio
In Ohio, you can vote from a park bench. Or a car park.

It’s driving Republicans in the “Buckeye state” crazy.

Ohio is one of the hardest-fought states in this campaign…. But it is also one of this election’s litigation hot spots, with Republican-backed legal teams convinced that thousands of fraudulent Democrat registrations could skew the result. Vigorous voter recruitment has added 660,000 names to the Ohio register since January.

The total number of voters is now 8.3 million, and a turnout of up to 80 per cent has been predicted.

Ohio’s Attorney-General, Democrat Jennifer Brunner, acknowledges about 200,000 of the new enrollments are irregular: their details do not match those held by other agencies.

But she has refused to run a full audit of the enrollments before the election, saying there is not enough time.

In a Machiavellian twist, ACORN has issued a press release accusing Republicans of voter suppression. The Republican National Committee Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross has issued the following statement in response to these spurious charges:

Since 2004, we have known that the Democrats’ written strategy is to launch ‘pre-emptive’ strikes and allege ‘vote suppression’ where none exists. In 2008, the Obama legal team has taken this reckless strategy to the next level and is distributing a document providing their operatives with a fictional voter suppression storyline to peddle. The sad irony lies in the fact that the Democrats’ stated strategy and the Obama campaign’s execution of that strategy creates uncertainty and fear among the voting public, which itself amounts to nothing less than vote suppression.

Voter fraud should not merely be “driving Republicans … crazy.” It should be anathema to all Americans.

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See Also:
The ACORN Obama knows (PajamasMedia; June 25, 2008)
ACORN Watch: Former staffer connects the dots (PajamasMedia; October 29, 2008)
Inside Obama’s Acorn (National Review; May 29, 2008)