"How can you run when you know?"
"Ohio," lyrics by Neil Young
As the bailout fiasco continues, the Democrats in Congress managed to attach funds in the bill for Acorn which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Among their many activities is to organize voter registration efforts for the Democratic Party. In 2006 their efforts registered 1,800 new voters in Washington but only six were later verified as authentic. Yet, the same organization has been involved in similar nonsense in the swing states of Missouri, Michigan, and Colorado, in addition to Washington and Ohio. Moreover, the New York Times reported that the group misappropriated funds.
Who else would such an organization attract but of course Barack Obama during his community organizing. He trained Acorn staff and later the Democratic nominee funneled money to the group through the Woods Fund, on whose board he sat, and through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
During this organization, Acorn promoted non-credit-worthy borrowers and now taxpayers are expected to foot the bill for the failing lending companies.
Why not just put our collective feet down, on Acorn and their crony?
But, there is more.
The likelihood of fraud is greater than ever in this election year.
Ordinarily, ballots are safeguarded with representatives from major parties who overlook the voting process. Not this year in Ohio.
A lawsuit by GOP-backed voters was dismissed against the Democratic secretary of state, Jennifer Brunner, and her interpretation of Ohio's absentee voting law. Ohio changed its election law in 2005 to allow any registered voter to cast an absentee ballot, beginning Sept. 30. The deadline for registering isn't until Oct. 6, so Brunner ruled there is a six-day window in which voters can register and vote at the same time.
In Ohio there are no safeguards, no validation of ballots, no oversight. Obama learned his Chicago style politics well: `vote early, vote often.' To quote the Who: "Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss."
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