On Voter Fraud

It's funny. All of a sudden the right is concerned about voter fraud. When a partisan secretary of state was hiring a partisan firm to strategically purge the voter rolls in a battleground state where the governor's brother was running for president, they didn't have a problem with it. When a partisan CEO of a company that makes easily hackable voting machines is also a candidate's campaign chair in a battleground state he promises to deliver to the candidate, they didn't have a problem with it. In fact, if you bring up either of these issues, they quickly point to the 1960 election where some say that the corrupt Chicago political machine and the mob handed Kennedy the win. So since something that may or may not have happened 40 years ago somehow benefited the other team, your average republican took that as a pass for any electoral shenanigans that their team might pull ad infinitum. So now they're making a big fuss over ACORN. ACORN are an organization of community organizers, you know, the people Sarah Palin bashed at the republican convention and that republicans have been demonizing forever. What do community organizers do exactly? They organize in lower income communities to get the otherwise forgotten and disenfranchised people involved in the system to make a better life for themselves. Why would republicans ever have a problem with that? They wouldn't, if these people voted republican. So being the professional victims that they are, the republicans are now crying foul over some flagged and bogus voter registration forms. But there's just one a whole bunch of problems with their outrage... For one, it's not voter fraud until somebody actually tries to vote with a bogus registration. Secondly, ACORN themselves noticed that the registrations were fishy and notified the election boards when they turned them in. They are required by law to turn in any applications they get. And thirdly, what better way to disenfranchise over a million likely democratic voters than throwing those babies out with the bathwater? They stir up enough outrage to purge all ACORN registered people after the deadline and they've stolen those votes. We're dealing with cornered rats here, and they are dangerous creatures who will do whatever they can to claw, bite or otherwise slime their way out of their predicament, which this time is a nationwide rejection of their bullshit policies. As they've been doing since September 12, 2001, they need to kick their fearmongering into overdrive. It's all they've got left. They need to turn out every ignoramus vote they can. They need every racist, every bigot, and every jerkwater dumbass hick out there to be scared not to come vote against the Muslim terrorist Obama and the poor and minority people who will surely be stealing directly from our pockets once he gets elected. Just look, these other people are even trying to steal the election from good christian white Americans, oh noes! So to all you republicans who think this election is being stolen from you, even if you had a legitimate claim on that issue, my response would not be particularly sympathetic given how selective you have proven to be in your support of clean elections. But since like pretty much everything you've been trying to stuff down our throats, this argument is complete and total bullshit, so my response to your latest pathetic whines of victimization is a big old Washington Interns Gone Bad FUCK YOU!