Captain Ed highlights another investigation into ACORN’s voter fraud registration practices. This happens like clockwork in election years. If it’s an even-numbered year, ACORN will be accused of voter fraud. If history repeats itself, ACORN workers will get convicted this year, too. Here’s what the Detroit Free Press (DFP) is reporting:

Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.

The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN’s Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.

“There appears to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications,” said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office. “And it appears to be widespread.”

Ed points out that Barack Obama has paid ACORN to register voters:

The editors chastise Barack Obama for his late revision of campaign finance documents that show extensive connections to ACORN, the GOTV group that faces criminal charges in connection to voter fraud in various areas of the country.

It’s sickening that the man who promised a new postpartisan brand of politics is resorting to his allies from his community organizing days. ACORN isn’t about reform, which is what the R in their acronym supposedly stands for. Based on their past legal history, I’d suggest that the R should stand for Retainer, as in a retainer for an attorney.

This is a purely rhetorical question but here goes: Why hasn’t anyone asked Sen. Obama why he’s paid this organization almost $1 million?

Yesterday, just like every other day, I read the LTE’s in my local paper as well as the comments left for the article. One misinformed liberal was talking about the huge voter registration drives that are happening that will render the polling models obsolete. I told this liberal about polling that showed Sen. Obama’s appeal is dropping in all demographic groups.

I should’ve told him that those numbers won’t hold up if ACORN’s doing the voter registration. It now appears as though they’re heavily involved in those registration drives, which means that the impressive-sounding numbers are likely to get dramatically shrunk before Election Day.

Technorati: ACORN, Voter Fraud, Investigation, Barack Obama, GOTV Operation, Voter Registration Drive, Election 2008

Cross-posted at California Conservative