Posted by
Andrews on Friday, October 10, 2008 9:36:31 PM
I have one very real hope for the 2008 election, and that is that ACORN overreaches itself. Having sent out "campaign registration workers" with absurd quotas of voters to register, and having seen those workers register the same people dozens of times, as well as register fictional individuals and celebrities, I am beginning to wonder if ACORN may not fatally shoot itself, and Obama's dreams in the foot.
How so?
Well, Ohio's incredibly partisan secretary of state
has decreed that there is to be early voting, at which individuals can register and vote on the same day, and that such voting is not open to observers. All of which is custom made for ACORN to pack the ballot boxes. It is a textbook, vote early vote often situation. ACORN can, for the price of a few bottles of booze and a few cartons of cigarettes, rack up tens of thousands of votes with a few hundred homeless voters.
And therein lies the possibility for a good outcome.
I know it sounds hopeless, a situation which calls for us writing off Ohio. Without observers, without records, with a hostile secretary of state, what hope does even a judicial appeal have? None. Well, none that is unless ACORN makes a mistake.
You see, ACORN doesn't know what the turnout will be on election day. They probably expect the usual 30-40% turnout, but what if 90% turns out in some districts? And what if ACORN registered and voted for another 30% during early voting? 120% of votes going for Obama is a fact that even the most biased courts and hostile secretary of state can't sweep under the rug. And once that little fact sinks in, the whole state and all of its electoral votes are called into question.
More than that, any state where ACRON was active is open for challenge, as the Ohio case will prove that ACORN engages in such practices. States where the dead and homeless have been deciding elections for decades will suddenly have to answer for their irregularities.
It may not happen. ACORN may exercise enough restraint to avoid that outcome. Or maybe not.Considering the excessive zeal of their operatives, and the sloppiness which has allowed them to be caught multiple times in recent voter fraud schemes, they might just manage to do what I am expecting.
I suppose we will have to wait for November to see what happens. But it will certainly make it more interesting watching returns come in on election day.