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Suppressing Dem's voter fraud

Terrance Scanlon:

Newspapers are reporting an incredible surge in new voter registrations this year. Democratic and Republican activists have sponsored registration drives in the hope that millions of new voters will elect John Kerry or George W. Bush president. Voter offices are swamped with thousands of last-minute registrations.
That makes the possibility of voter fraud very real. Increasingly, reports of fake and forged voter registration cards are surfacing across the nation, and they are prompting official investigations into voter drives. One group in particular has come under scrutiny. ACORN — it stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — has received wide attention for claiming to have registered more than 1 million new voters nationwide. But in state after state, allegations are surfacing that ACORN activists are padding the registration books.
In Colorado, hundreds of voter registration forms are suspect. On Oct. 12, Denver television station KUSA reported that one woman admitted to forging three people's names on 40 registration forms to help her boyfriend earn an extra $50 from ACORN. According to the Associated Press, she also signed herself up to vote 25 times.
Police in Duluth, Minn., stopped a 19-year-old motorist for running a stop sign and discovered 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of his car. According an Oct. 8 article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the driver, an ex-ACORN employee, admitted the cards were there for weeks and months. ACORN says it paid the canvasser $1 per registration and fired him because it suspected he was registering voters twice to double his fee. The Associated Press reports that ACORN claims to have registered 36,000 new voters in Minnesota.
An Oct. 8 report in the Cincinnati Inquirer says Hamilton County officials subpoenaed 19 voter registration cards turned in by ACORN with similar handwriting and false addresses. In Columbus, Ohio, officials discovered dozens of faked names on voter cards and have indicted one ACORN worker. ACORN says it has registered 158,000 new voters in Ohio and 26,000 in Cincinnati/Hamilton County.
A Sept. 26 New York Times county-by-county analysis of heavily Democratic areas in Ohio (mainly low-income and minority neighborhoods) finds that new registrations since January are up by 250 percent compared to registrations during the same period in 2000. In Florida, the increase over 2000 is 60 percent in Democratic areas —compared to just 12 percent in heavily Republican areas.
In the battleground state of Florida, ACORN claims to have registered 212,000 voters for the general election. But one of them was the mayor of St. Petersburg who received a letter telling him he was ineligible to vote because his registration form was not turned in on time. Mayor Charles Schuh discovered someone from ACORN had fraudulently submitted his name, reports an Oct. 4 article in the St. Petersburg Times. The Palm Beach Post reported on Oct. 8 that ACORN is also under state and federal investigation in Miami-Dade County for unlawfully registering former felons to vote. (In New Orleans, ACORN registered 700 new voters at the jailhouse by signing up prisoners awaiting trial but not yet found guilty of a crime.) An ACORN worker registered a 13-year-old to vote in Albuquerque, N.M.

The Democrat's attempt to cry wolf over so called voter suppression appears to be an attempt to coverup a blatant attempt to steal the election through fraud. Another story yesterday told of a guy who was paid with crack cocaine to register 100 voters. Democrats are demonstrating that they will do anything to win.