They never give up:

…in New York’s Columbia County, a two-hour drive up the Hudson River from New York City. Local Democrats have encouraged weekend residents to register and vote on the theory that their ballots aren’t needed in New York City, where Democrats already hold an overwhelming registration edge. In a lightly-populated upstate community, however, a few transplant votes can represent the balance of power.

That was certainly the case last month in the town of Taghkanic, which has about 1,500 people. In a closely contested race for local offices, more than 20% of the ballots were cast by absentees, almost all of them by weekend residents who appeared to have delivered narrow victories to local Democrats. In response, Republicans have sued, pointing to evidence that many of the absentees were people whose jobs, drivers licenses and primary residences were in New York City and legally should have voted there. Some may even have voted in both jurisdictions. Approximately 60 absentee ballots are at issue and could sway the result of some races if disqualified.

The case will be heard by a local judge in State Supreme Court in Columbia County tomorrow. Evidence before him will include spreadsheets showing that many of the county’s absentee voters had signed affidavits for property tax exemptions on homes outside of Columbia County or signed second-home riders on mortgages securing their Columbia County property. Those riders explicitly say their primary residences are elsewhere.

As Democrats head in to an increasingly harsh electoral environment, we can expect ever more efforts to cheat. Cheating, remember, is not something that happens from time to time, it is something Democrats do whenever they can. And they are quite good at it. And also quite good at playing the injured party (as in Florida in 2000, or in Ohio in 2004) – naturally, most of the MSM will come down hard on the side of the Democrats.

The good news is that stories like these do show an increasingly desperate Democrat party – a party which knows it betrayed the American people and is about to get punished for it.

Our task is to both remain vigilant for these efforts while, also, working to run up our vote totals to the point where cheating won’t be able to change the outcome.

This is “justice” under Obama:

The Justice Department has told the federal attorneys who filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting a Philadelphia polling place last year not to cooperate with an investigation of the incident by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

The commission last week subpoenaed at least two Justice Department lawyers and sought documents from the department to explain why the complaint was dismissed just as a federal judge was about to punish the New Black Panther Party and three of its members for intimidating voters.

Why do they do this? Because when a leftist says “community organizer” he doesn’t mean someone like Obama but, actually, someone like these Panthers who intimidated voters. A well organized community, for the left, is a community which votes the right way – and no better way to ensure the “correct” vote than to put bully boys out in front of the polling place to scare away anyone who might want to vote the wrong way. The left has never allowed a fair vote unless it absolutely had to – because the other side had enough force on its side to keep things fair. Absent proper counter-force, the left will cheat at election time in a grand manner as as a matter of course.

The Department of Justice is supposed to act as the counter-force to those who would attempt to hijack or intimidate the vote. They are supposed to on the look out for thugs at polling places and scams to stuff ballot boxes. Unfortunately, Justice has often been absent, especially in liberal areas of the country…and now, under Holder, Justice might be nowhere to be found. In the end, in order to protect our right to vote, we might have to post patriots at every polling place in sufficient force to intimidate the intimidators.

It’d be better if we could avoid this – but I don’t hold out much hope that Obama’s Justice Department will be at all interested in doing the right thing.

Doug Hoffman thinks so – and certainly wants to check carefully, just to be sure:

As evidence surfaces, we find out that reported results from election night were far from accurate. ACORN and the unions did their best to try and sway the results to Obamacare supporter Bill Owens.

I was forced to concede after receiving two pieces of grim news – - down 5,335 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted on election night – and barely won my stronghold in Oswego County. On Election Night, the information we received was far different from what we received this week!

Rest assured, they will not succeed, and I am therefore revoking my statement of concession.

That is why I am writing you today. Recent developments leave me to wonder who is scheming behind closed doors, twisting arms and stealing elections from the voters of NY-23.

I’m sure you are as dismayed as I am to learn of the mischief that took place in Oswego and neighboring counties. We know this would not be the first time for the ACORN faithful to tamper with democracy.

Now it’s time to actually count every legal ballot and I need your help to ensure the people of NY-23 get the Congressman THEY ELECTED. Please donate now to help me ensure every vote is counted!

Our Democrats are used to both stealing elections and having our side just quietly accept it. Its time for this to stop – our freedom is too important and, if we don’t fight back, the left will just press harder and harder with this. They have no problem with stealing the vote – to the left, we should be voting their way and thus their voter fraud is just correcting our error which we would correct ourselves, if we weren’t fools clinging to God and our guns.

Think of it as a war, my friends – they on the left want to win it all and win it for good, and if we don’t fight them all down the line, we’re just surrendering the field to them. Hit them back. Everywhere. All the time. With everything we’ve got.

The never ending story:

Democrats Ask New Jersey Secretary of State to Ignore Mismatched Signatures on Absentee-Ballot Requests

This year, New Jersey’s registered voters can request a mail-in ballot for any reason. (Before 2005, voters needed to provide a reason for why they needed an absentee ballot.) The state received about 150,000 absentee-ballot applications this year.

On about 2,300 of those applications so far, the signature on the request form does not match the signature on the voter’s registration forms with the state.

In a development that is depressingly predictable, the New Jersey Democratic party is asking the state to provide provisional ballots for all these voters. Those ballots could, presumably, be used to overcome any narrow lead by Republican Chris Christie over Democrat Jon Corzine on Election Day.

Once we are back in power, we should set up a Voter Protection Committee to investigate all accusations of voter fraud over the past 10 years. To be sure, we’ll have to deal with the kook accusations about Diebold, but it will be worth it to get at the real voter fraud endemic to the Democrat party. Once we get 100 or 200 Democrats in jail for voter fraud, perhaps the rest will decide that conducting elections honestly is a good idea.

Hmmm…

Did ACORN chicanery elect Al Franken? That’s the import of this tactfully phrased Minneapolis Star Tribune column.** Franken won by 312 votes. ACORN claimed to have registered 48,000 new Minnesota voters. If just 1% were ineligible but cast ballots, or had ballots cast for them illegally, and survived the recount process … that’s 480 votes, almost certainly overwhelmingly cast for Franken. … Maybe in pristine Minnesota even ACORN is clean. If so, the state would apparently be an outlier. …

And that is the point, dear liberals – no one thinks that ACORN created millions of votes to overwhelmingly win…but by their fraud, they can create just enough votes to allow a Democrat to win in a squeeker. That is how voter fraud works, ya know? Oh. I didn’t realize. Sorry, I thought everyone knew that. Well, lets take a look at this:

In 1948, Texas Governor Coke Stevenson ran for a U.S. Senate seat against Texas Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson:

“Early indications were that Congressman Johnson had lost. Six days later, however, Precinct 13 in the border town of Alice, Texas, showed a very interesting result. Exactly 203 people had voted at the last minute — in the order they were listed on the tax rolls — and 202 of them had voted for Johnson.

Trying to manufacture a lot of votes to turn a big loser in to a winner is (a) nearly impossible and (b) might spark a revolution. But when its really, really close…as long as you have the guts to try, officials who are willing to be complicit or at least turn a blind eye, and an MSM which is on your side, it can be done. Democrats have always done this – and I mean going back to the foundations of the party in the early 19th century. Ask anyone of an old, Irish-Catholic family and you’ll get some stories…

Democrats did this in Washington State in 2004, attempted it in Florida in 2000 and, very likely, pulled it off again in Minnesota in 2008. It seems there were many tens of thousands – and perhaps hundreds of thousands – more votes than voters in Minnesota in 2008. Almost certainly, fraud was perpetrated and while it might have just run up Obama’s big win, it seems to have been just enough to pull Franken over the finish line.

This is why we need to have stricter controls on voting – picture IDs, period purging of the rolls (preferably every 4th year), heavy (life terms?) penalties for voter fraud…even if its just telling someone to go out and get fraudulent registrations. The only legitimacy our government has is because of the voters – if the vote becomes tainted and people lose faith in the democratic system, then its all over for the American republic. Voter fraud is, in many respects, treason – and it should be treated as such.

UPDATE: Yes, should I ever be in a position to do so, I’ll try to have the 2008 Minnesota result looked in to.

We do begin to wonder just how much of Obama’s victory margin was called in to being:

Eleven people hired to register potential voters in Miami-Dade County before last year’s presidential election were being sought Wednesday for falsifying hundreds of voter registration cards.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office issued arrest warrants for each of the 11 suspects, all of whom worked for the local chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, (ACORN).

By early Wednesday morning, six were in custody, authorities said.

Of course, it could have had a bit of a different motive – as Obama won it without the necessity of fraud (which doesn’t mean that fraud wasn’t used), the bogus registrations could also have been cover for bogus donations. You know – make up a name and then that name also shows up in Obama’s donor rolls…with the money actually coming from some rich guy who’s illegally bankrolling the Obama Express.

We certainly have enough to launch a massive, nation-wide investigation. The problem is that our government got in to power with the help of the crooks, and thus won’t go after them. We’ll have to wait until people who honor the law are back in power…then we’ll have a field day with this stuff.

UPDATE: And it gets worse.

He’s going to try and gerrymander the entire United States:

The U.S. Census is supposed to be free of politics, but one group with a history of voter fraud, ACORN, is participating in next year’s count, raising concerns about the politicization of the decennial survey.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now signed on as a national partner with the U.S. Census Bureau in February 2009 to assist with the recruitment of the 1.4 million temporary workers needed to go door-to-door to count every person in the United States — currently believed to be more than 306 million people.

A U.S. Census “sell sheet,” an advertisement used to recruit national partners, says partnerships with groups like ACORN “play an important role in making the 2010 Census successful,” including by “help[ing] recruit census workers.”

What ACORN’s assignment will be is to ensure there is a large over-count of population in Democrat-heavy areas of the country so that in both the US House and in State legislatures, Democrats get more safe seats. Proof? If you don’t believe this assertion then you’re either a blind partisan, or a complete fool. ACORN is a leftwing tool of the Democratic party and its sole purpose is to increase the power of the left – it doesn’t do anything else, it never has done anything else, it won’t ever do anything else. Eventually, when we get a properly courageous GOP government in office, we’ll have to shut it down via criminal prosecutions – meanwhile, Obama is going to use it to corrupt the American political process just as he did in the 2008 campaign.

We’ll have to fight twice as hard in 2010 and 2012 because Democrats will use every dirty trick in the book to thwart us – we’ll need 60% of the vote just to counter-act the votes Democrats will manufacture. Get ready for the battle, fellow GOPers and conservatives.

The very long fuse of the Catholic Church has finally gone off over this criminal enterprise:

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) has not yet been able to determine if grants made to ACORN were used for fraudulent voter registration, but has cut off all funding to the community organizing group, Bishop Robert Morin announced on Tuesday.

Shortly after addressing the full assembly of U.S. Catholic bishops, Bishop Morin spoke to reporters about what the bishops had learned concerning the use of grants from the CCHD to the group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which is currently under investigation in 13 states for voter fraud.

CCHD originally announced in July 2008 that it was suspending funding to ACORN because of the embezzlement of 1 million dollars by the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke. Today, however, the Bishop Morin went one step further and announced the cancelation of all funding to the group.

The Catholic Church will work with just about anyone if there’s a chance the poor will be helped – recognizing the truth that we all fall very far short of the perfection God desires for us, its not time to stand on ceremony when a sinner offers to help out. But there is a limit, and ACORN has at least reached it. Hopefully the good people in ACORN will start to realize that they’ve been taken for a ride by a group dedicated to fraud and a leftist political ideology which is at war with all morality.

Interesting:

Despite widespread predictions of record turnout in this year’s presidential election, roughly the same portion of eligible voters cast ballots in 2008 as in 2004.

Between 60.7 percent and 61.7 percent of the 208.3 million eligible voters cast ballots this year, compared with 60.6 percent of those eligible in 2004, according to a voting analysis by American University political scientist Curtis Gans, an authority on voter turnout.

He estimated that between 126.5 million and 128.5 million eligible voters cast ballots this year, versus 122.3 million four years ago. Gans said the gross number of ballots cast in 2008 was the highest ever, even though the percentage was not substantially different from 2004, because there were about 6.5 million more people registered to vote this time around…

…In 2004, turnout was 6 percentage points higher than in 2000. But Gans said he believed it did not spike more this year because fewer Republicans went to the polls. While it may be premature to draw conclusions, Gans said, it appeared that Republican voting declined 1.3 points, to 28.7 percent of the electorate, while Democratic turnout rose from 28.7 percent to 31.3 percent of the electorate.

The Democratic increase struck some analysts as modest, considering the party’s immense get-out-the-vote operation, strong anti-Bush sentiment and Obama’s popularity.

“It sort of calls into question some of the vaunted ground game discussion, the whole turnout machine,” said a Democratic strategist who did not want to be quoted by name criticizing Obama’s campaign. “The GOTV effort was redoubled in 2008 compared to 2004, but it did not seem to make that big of a difference.”

Not quite the sweeping victory for liberalism our leftwing friends are claiming. Now the stories about Obama’s paid “volunteers” (who seem to have went at least temporarily unpaid) massing in droves to back his candidacy take on the look of, well, nonsense. Here are some States which had a decrease:

Ohio: 5,379,765 in 2008, 5,722,443 in 2004, 6% decrease.
Indiana: 2,286,760 in 2008, 2,468,002 in 2004, 7% decrease.
Alaska: 223,258 in 2008, 312,598 in 2004, 29% decrease.

The Alaska number is especially amazing given the hotly contested Senate seat plus having the Alaska governor on the ballot. For all the hoopla and hype and election day stories of massive turnout, its clear that it wasn’t like that at all – so why were we getting stories saying such was happening when it wasn’t? Some States (Florida, eg) had a big increase in turnout, but there are not enough actual turnout increases in battleground States to support the election day meme of high turnout. We were also advised that turnout might be as high as 150 million, about 30 million more than actually showed up – where did the high estimate come from?

What shapes up initially is a lack of enthusiasm for John McCain on the part of rank and file GOPers which could not be made up by merely having Palin on the ticket (and for all the lefty attacks on her, the rank and file GOP holds a very high opinion on her) – as in 2006, not so much a resounding endorsement of liberalism but a rejection of the GOP as its been over the past few years. A better GOP should be able to get those voters back to the polls and put a swift end to the Era of The One.

UPDATE: Haven’t been able to secure the complete vote for Illinois, but it appears that turnout in The One’s State only increased about 1% over 2004. Strange, huh? It was up a bit more than 2% in Arizona…which is still a small increase, all things considered, but beats Barry’s.

In the finest tradition of Democrat politics:

100 votes suddenly discovered. Every one for Franken and Obama. Every one.

Hey, I’ve got 1000 votes for Coleman in my rumpus room. Sorry, I forgot to deliver them previously. Where shall I bring them?

The Minnesota GOP can probably use some money for lawyers.

Click on this link to donate to the Minnesota GOP – it might be too late to save the seat, but we must try to prevent the Democrats from stealing another election as they did in Washington State in 2004. Without our help, the Democrats will just keep manufacturing votes until they get the number they need to put Franken over the top.

If you click on the “every one” link above, you’ll see that what is happening is the impossible appearance and disappearance of ballots, always in favor of Franken. The MSM, naturally, doesn’t care – one more Donk Senator is always fine with the lapdog Dinosaur Media. The problem is that Minnesota has a very clean election reputation – when I noted the final tally, I figured the recount might have some small differences, but that Coleman was certainly re-elected because when you have efficient and clean elections, the variance between “count” and “recount” are very small. All of a sudden we’ve got all sorts of Chicago-style things going on.

Franken is a hard left fanatic and someone who has proven himself rather hate-filled in his statements as well as someone not entirely devoted to truth and justice. The Democrats under Obama’s Chicago leadership can be, if anything, even less trusted than before to be honest about the election tactics. It will be a terrible tragedy if the Democrats are able to corrupt Minnesota, and a plain and simple crime if the Democrats of Minnesota allow it to happen just to get one more Democratic Senator.

UPDATE: Very strange thing – 223258 and 312598. The first number is the number of votes cast in Alaska in 2008, the latter number is those cast in 2004. How come in a hotly contested election year, with the 80% approval-rating Alaska governor and a hotly contested Senate race is there about 89,000 less votes in 2008 than 2004?

Taking a look at the Indiana Secretary of State’s website, I note that the vote totals for Obama and McCain are 1,080,584 and 1,180,102, respectively. Unless someone at the office as made a huge mistake, I call that a 100,000 vote victory for McCain. Now, the page shows last update on 11/7/08 at 5:29pm, noting that not all counties have fully reported. Meanwhile, over at CNN’s website, they have the vote total of 1,367,503 for Obama and 1,341,667, for a 26,000-odd vote Obama win. This last updated, “100% precincts reporting – 2:05 p.m. EST, Nov 6 ‘08″. Rather strange, huh? Where does CNN get the extra 500,000 votes which Indiana hasn’t counted yet?

Anyone out there got a reason for the discrepancy? I mean, if Indiana, itself, has not counted 18.5% if the vote – but CNN managed to do so – three days after the election, that would be a rather strange set of circumstances. Wouldn’t it?

With ACORN and other Obama groups planning to defraud our electorate, we must stay vigilant and ensure that the vote is as clean as possible:

Today, the McCain-Palin campaign launched the Honest and Open Election hotline to help citizens learn the location of their polling place, as well as report any instances of irregularities at the polls, including voter fraud, intimidation, violence and electioneering. The hotline can be accessed via phone at: 866-976-VOTE.

“With November 4th quickly approaching, our Honest and Open Election hotline will serve as an informative guide for all Americans participating in the electoral process,” said McCain-Palin National Political Director Mike DuHaime. “The hotline will allow us to learn about and take steps toward remedying any voter irregularities at polling places across the country. While we are hopeful that Election Day will be free of any wrongdoing, allies of the Democrat Party, such as ACORN, have shown a willingness to commit fraud in both this election cycle and in 2004. Given the tightness of the polls, all examples of fraud must be addressed to preserve the integrity of the election.”

In 2004, multiple forms of voter fraud occurred, including voter intimidation, fraudulent registrations, multiple ballots cast and votes bought for money. Already during the 2008 election cycle, a dead woman in Missouri cast an absentee ballot, individuals were arrested for voting twice in Florida and people in Ohio registered and voted on the same day.

Write that number down and carry it with you when you go to vote – if you suspect anything, call it in and allow the experts to determine if its fair or foul. Don’t get into arguments about it at the polling place – but report what you see. Our right to vote is vital and we must prevent people from diluting our votes with bogus ballots.

Democrats will certainly be ashamed at these people who failed to risk their all for Obama:

Thirteen campaign workers for Barack Obama yesterday yanked their voter registrations and ballots in Ohio after being warned by a prosecutor that temporary residents can’t vote in the battleground state.

A dozen staffers – including Obama Ohio spokeswoman Olivia Alair and James Cadogan, who recently joined Team Obama – signed a form letter asking the Franklin County elections board to pull their names from the rolls.

The letter – a copy of which was obtained by palestra.net, a Fox News affiliate – came a day after prosecutor Ron O’Brien publicly urged out-of-state campaign workers for both Obama and John McCain to “examine your conscience” before the elections board beings begins opening absentee ballots today.

Earlier in the week, O’Brien spoke with lawyers for both camps and urged them to make sure their staffs met permanent-residency rules, or face possible felony charges.

Come on, Obamabots; what is a little jail time compared to the prospect that Obama might not win Ohio? Surely you can fall on your swords – suppose Obama loses? What worth would there be in even so much as being alive in a non-Obama America? What price Hopenchange?

Democrats are, well, getting more and more creepy all the time:

The patchwork problem of federal and state election regulations strikes again.

Military ballots are being tossed in Fairfax Co, VA because of a “technicality.” Not a lot of them compared to the size of the electorate, but more than a few.

The registrar of voters in a Democrat. He thinks it “stinks,” but the law is the law.

Fairfax general registrar Rokey Suleman said Thursday that he has had to reject some of the ballots because of a Virginia law passed in 2002. That law — then called Senate Bill 113, sponsored by then state Sen. Bill Bolling — requires that when an overseas citizen wants to request an absentee ballot and cast a vote with the same paperwork, it requires not only a witness signature but also the current address of the witness.

The McCain campaign said there’s not even a space for the witness to list an address. Suleman agreed; he said the federal document was changed in recent years and the space for the witness address was removed. But the Virginia law hasn’t changed.

Democrats insist they’re biased towards access… so will they try to intervene on behalf of these voters?

Someone can show up on election day and get a provisional ballot from a Democrat, but let a military member being shot at on our behalf fail to dot an “i” or cross a “t”, and some Donk son of a b**** out there will find an excuse for tossing his likely-GOP ballot. Makes ya sick, doesn’t it?

Look, Democrats, there’s this thing called “morality”, you should look it up – its rather important to adhere to it, or at least attempt to do so. Among the many aspects of this morality thingy is a bit about fair play – about honesty and a sense of justice. You’re taking a big, nasty dump on America in this year of 2008, and you really need to cut it out. There really, really is a limit beyond which we won’t put up with this nonsense anymore.

Patrick Ruffini has the story:

I just contributed $5 to Barack Obama.

I didn’t want to. Ideally, I could have contributed $0.01 and cost them money. But it was the only way to confirm the root cause of the fraudulent micro-donations to the Obama campaign (“Doodad Pro” for $17,300 and “Good Will” for $11,000).

The Obama campaign has turned its security settings for accepting online contributions down to the bare minimum — possibly to juice the numbers, and turning a blind eye towards the potential for fraud not just against the FEC, but against unsuspecting victims of credit card fraud.

The issue centers around the Address Verification Service (or AVS) that credit card processors use to sniff out phony transactions. I was able to contribute money using an address other than the one on file with my bank account (I used an address I control, just not the one on my account), showing that the Obama campaign deliberately disabled AVS for its online donors…

There is much more, and I recommend reading all of Ruffini’s piece, but it seems clear to me that whatever else Obama might be, his fundraising operation has descended to a “Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization” (and there’s a law for that, too). There is simply no doubt in a rational mind that people at the Obama campaign have deliberately and with malice aforethought broken our campaign finance laws – whether or not Obama knew about it beforehand is the unanswered question, but we really should press for an answer to it.

Outside of that, we are starting to see that Barack Obama might be a bit of a con job altogether. It seems that our Obamessiah is more of a “St. Styrofoam” – puffed up to a grand thing, but easily crushed and tossed aside. Right now, I doubt the whole show – the amount of money Obama has allegedly raised (it could be remarkably less than reported, and what has been collected could be in large part illegal donations), the amount of enthusiasm he’s generating among the American population (ACORN’s bogus registrations cast doubt upon all of the alleged Democratic gains in voter registration over the past two years) and the polls alleging he’s cruising to a slam dunk victory (too many of them have massive over samples of Democrats). If Obama winds up with a landslide victory on November 4th, then it will be obvious that I’m wrong on this – but if Obama does anything from win narrowly to lose in a landslide, then I’ll be proven correct.

And this is, really, just the tip of the ACORN/Obama/Democrat voter fraud scandal:

CINCINNATI (AP) – Close to one in every three newly registered Ohio voters will end up on court-ordered lists being sent to county election boards because they have some discrepancy in their records, an elections spokesman said Wednesday.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner estimated that an initial review found that about 200,000 newly registered voters reported information that did not match motor-vehicle or Social Security records, Brunner spokesman Kevin Kidder said. Some discrepancies could be as simple as a misspelling, while others could be more significant.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati sided with the Ohio Republican Party on Tuesday and ordered Brunner to set up a system that provides those names to county elections boards. The GOP contends the information will help prevent fraud.

“Things already are in motion to comply,” Kidder said. “We’re working to establish these processes on how we can make this work. The computer work actually began last week.”

About 666,000 Ohioans have registered to vote since January.

Brunner previously cross-checked new-voter registrations with databases run by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicle and the Social Security Administration and made the results available online, but the 6th Circuit said the information was not accessible in a way that would help county election boards ferret out mismatches.

Brunner, a Democrat, told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer on Wednesday that she is concerned the court decision is a veiled attempt at disenfranchising voters. Brunner said she’ll urge counties not to force these people to use provisional ballots.

The court gave Brunner until Friday to get election boards the information but it was unclear whether that deadline would be met. The court set no penalty for missing the deadline. (emphasis added)

Naturally the Democrat is going to do everything possible to keep fraudulent voters on the rolls – such is vital to Obama’s prospects on November 4th. What fools like Brunner don’t realize is that there is just so much of this we’ll take – if the ultimate leftwing goal is a complete break down of faith in our democratic process and eventual civil war, they’re going about it the right way. And the really astounding thing is that there always has been, in this year of 2008, a solid chance even someone as leftist as Obama would win fair and square. All they’ve done is pre-taint Obama should he win.

We do need to get to the bottom of this, and that is another reason for voting for McCain/Palin – only a McCain Administration would have the courage and the desire to go after all political corruption, most especially that being done by the left.

CNN, of all places, notes that Obama is trying to mislead Americans about his connections to ACORN.

Meanwhile, problems with ACORN’s voter fraud are surfacing in Minnesota.

ABC covers Obama’s changing his “Fight The Smears” website after his ACORN connections were exposed.

Laura Ingraham talks about Obama’s ties to ACORN.

Norh Carolina is reviewing ACORN voter forms…

A bogus voter was caught voting in Ohio…

Obama and ACORN…

Palin: Obama must ‘rein in’ ACORN

In June, when I went fishing, I had to present a valid, Nevada picture ID in order to obtain a fishing license.

In contrast to this, I’d only need to present myself in order to vote.

What is more important, liberals – voting or fishing? Did the patriots at Valley Forge suffer for the right to catch trout? Or was there something else at stake?

We start with yet another story of ACORN’s conspiracy to defraud the American electorate:

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.

Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.

“I don’t even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy,” Davis said. “We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don’t exist, people who have driver’s license numbers that won’t verify or Social Security numbers that won’t verify. Some have no address at all.”

The nonpartisan group works to recruit low-income voters, who tend to lean Democratic. Most polls show Republican presidential candidate John McCain with an edge in bellwether Missouri, but Democrat Barack Obama continues to put up a strong fight.

To Matt and I, this is entirely unsurprising – as it is to anyone who has read Caucus of Corruption. I begin to be really disappointed that the book didn’t do better – and not at all because a better selling book would have accrued to my financial advantage. I’m disappointed because it means the word didn’t get out as much as it should have. I know our leftwing friends think the book was nothing but a hatchet job on Democratic politicians, but the truth of the matter is that all we were doing is telling the untold story of corruption in politics – the Democratic part of the story. We didn’t ignore the stories of GOP corruption, but we wrote the book because we felt – correctly – that the MSM wasn’t giving the American people the full story and that American politics would never be cleaned up until both sides were held accountable. It is very, very important that everyone understand that all the 2008 stories about ACORN are nothing new. This is what ACORN and other leftist groups do – or did you think that there really was a widespread desire to see the far left agenda of ACORN put into law? ACORN has put in fraudulent registrations in 2008, in 2006, in 2004, in 2002, in 2000 and, I’ll bet, in each election year ACORN has been in existence – and ACORN is just one of the leftist groups who stuff the ballot boxes for the Democratic party (as an aside, in the MSM story ACORN is called “nonpartisan”, which makes this entry “What Media Bias? Part 132″).

Hopefully these stories and law enforcement actions have started us on the path to holding the left side responsible for their actions – if we can get some of these fraudsters to spend a long time inside a jail cell – and pass laws requiring a picture ID to vote – then we’ll go a long way towards ending the long-standing Democratic practice of manufacturing the votes necessary for victory in a close race. But in the context of 2008, just what does it all mean? In my view, it means that Obama’s supposed grass roots support is non-existent – if Reagan was the “teflon President”, Obama is the “astroturf candidate”.

Coupling the stories of massive fraud in voter registration and the prospect that nearly 50% of Obama’s fundraising may have been fraudulent, we can start to see that the narrative of Obama – the man who is inspiring a nation for hope and change and who is being propelled to the top on a wave of popular support for this candidate – is built upon falsehood. It also indicates that, just perhaps, the demographic make up of the polling this year has been off. Remember an important point – the television camera is the great deceiver of our times…just because you see tens of thousands of screaming Obama fans on television doesn’t necessarily mean that Obama is ragingly popular throughout the United States. He may be, but rally attendance, in and of itself, doesn’t tell us if he is. Looking beyond the camera, we can see a very large amount of bogus donors (thus undercutting Obama’s story of an energized, pro-Obama electorate), and we can see very large numbers of bogus new Democratic registrations (thus undercutting the Democrats’ story of a populace shifting Democrat in preparation for a massive Democratic sweep in November). There might, in the end, be nothing there for Obama and his Democrats…and thus we can now see such things as Obama dispatching legions of lawyers to Florida and beefing up GOTV efforts in Michigan as indicators that Team Obama also knows that things aren’t entirely rosy and thus they are preparing for a knock-down, drag-out on election day with the result boiling down to relative handfulls of votes in a few States.

If Obama wins, all of this voter and donor fraud will be shoved down the leftwing Memory Hole and we’ll continue on with corrupt business as usual. If McCain wins, we might have a chance to really attack the problem of corruption – but, in the end, it is up to we, the people to set things right. If we don’t punish elected officials in the worst way possible – ie, deny them office – then they’ll never get the message we are serious about having clean elections and politicians who put country first. In 2008, the corruption in politics might mean that we’re actually pulling the mask off the left and setting the stage for massive reform of how our government operations – but it will only mean this if we turn back to the Obama tide, a task made harder by the fact that Team Obama will cheat as much as they can. But it can be done, it must be done and, God willing, it will be done.

Look your left, look your right. Look up and look down. Everywhere you look, the left is trying to steal this election for Barack Obama.

Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud.

Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state’s office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about “erroneous” registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.

“Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications,” Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev.

Secretary of State Ross Miller said the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team.

“Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won’t be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4,” Miller said.

Walsh said agents from both the secretary of state’s office and Nevada attorney general’s office conducted the raid at 9:30 a.m. local time, and “took a bunch of stuff.”

In a race expected to be close on Election Day, this is serious stuff.