Vote fraud news: Obama, ACORN, and East St. Louis

Vote fraud is a serious issue, which the Democratic Party and the mainstream media has had success in linking it to the Republicans, going back to the 2000 Florida recount debacle and the historical fiction of Ohio and Diebold in 2004.

That same year, irregularities in Wisconsin, which allows same-day voter registration, arguably allowed the Democrats to steal Wisconsin and its 11 electoral votes.

For instance, in addition to felons voting illegally in America's Dairyland, people voting twice, the number of votes counted in Milwaukee County, the state's most populous, exceeded the number of people who actually exercised their franchise.

Captain's Quarters has a good summary of the scandal written in 2005.

Things weren't much better in 2000, the year of the "smokes for votes" drive.

Bush lost Wisconsin by 5,000 votes in 2000, 11,000 in 2004.

Late last month six people hired by ACORN were indicted for their role in filing false voter registration forms involving a 2006 drive to increase Missouri's minimum wage.

Here's how FrontPage Magazine's Discover The Network describes ACORN:

Largest radical group in America, with 175,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 850 chapters in 70 US cities

Implicated in numerous reports of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams during the 2004 election

Maintains close ties to organized labor

ACORN is a former legal client of Senator Obama's, as the Sun-Times reported in 2006:

In 1995, former Republican Gov. Jim Edgar refused to implement the federal "Motor Voter" law, which Republicans argued could invite fraud and which some Republicans feared could swell the ranks of Democratic voters.

The law mandated people be allowed to register to vote in government offices such as driver's license renewal centers.

Obama sued on behalf of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The League of Women Voters and other public-interest groups joined in.

"He and his client were the ones who filed the original case -- they blazed the trail," said Paul Mollica, who represented the League.

On New Year's Eve, Obama said he won't tolerate vote theft.

True, lawyers often have to work with clients who are creeps, although I'm pretty sure Senator Obama doesn't view ACORN as creepy.

But if Obama is going to pander to the tin-foil hat crowd on Republican "vote fraud," then his feet need to be put to the fire on documented cases of election thievery involving his party.

For instance, when Obama clobbered Alan Keyes to win his US Senate seat, federal officials uncovered a widespread ring of vote-buying in East St. Louis. Some voters were given additional incentives to vote such as alcohol and cigarettes. Calling East St. Louis a Democratic stronghold is a great understatement.

Up in Morton Grove, I voted that day and I was not paid, nor did I receive smokesor booze. In short, even though the Democrats didn't need those ESL votes to annihilate the Republican ticket in Illinois, I feel that fraud had been committed against me on Election Day in 2004.

What about my right to participate in "free and equal" elections, which are promised to me in the Illinois Constitution, Article III, Section 3?

C'mon Senator...speak out!

Related posts:

Hypocrite Obama won't tolerate election theft

Obama and the Laborers Union Ed Smith

Hat tip to Anne Leary (likely another 2004 vote fraud victim) of Backyard Conservative for the ACORN link.

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