THE DEMOCRATS ARE STEALING THE ELECTION; VOLUME 2

IF IT'S NOT CLOSE THEY CAN'T CHEAT
Last Thursday I posted Democrats are Stealing the Election and I forwarded it to Investors Business Daily. On October 6, using their superior research capability, IBD published the following editorial titled ""Integrity Under Fire":

Voter Fraud: With registration drives pushing the envelope and Democrats pushing the "disen-franchisement" myth, it's not easy these days to hold an honest election.

There's trouble brewing in the ballot box this year, and it's not just in Florida. In fact, the land of the hanging chad is under nonstop scrutiny to prevent a repeat of the real recount fiasco and imagined civil-rights abuses of 2000.

For that reason, it may turn out to be the cleanest state, with scandals popping up elsewhere, and under Jimmy Carter's radar.

The emerging story of the 2004 election is voter fraud. Here are some samples of recent funny business in hotly contested states:

• In Ohio, authorities in Lake and Summit counties are looking into more than 1,000 suspect registration forms and absentee-ballot requests, including one attempt to register a dead man. The NAACP's National Voter Fund and the George Soros-backed group Americans Coming Together are probe targets.

Lake County Prosecutor Charles Coulson said: "We've seen voter fraud before, but never on this level."

• In Michigan, officials suspect that two organizations, Public Interest Research Group in Michigan and Project Vote, have been registering nonexistent people or forging applications for already registered voters. Christopher Thomas, the state elections director, said the scale of current voter-registration drives — and the irregularities — were like nothing he had seen before.

• Project Vote is also in trouble in Racine, Wis., where the acting city clerk is seeking a criminal probe after people named on Project Vote applications told her office they hadn't signed the forms.

There's more where this comes from. (Interested readers can get daily updates on voter fraud coverage from blogger Bill Hobbs at billhobbs.com.) Electoral fraud has always been with us, and it hasn't been the province of one party. But, as Coulson and Thomas both noted, it seems to have gone into overdrive this year.

At the same time, election laws and their enforcement aren't keeping up. Congress passed election reform in 2002 that is nudging states toward firmer requirements for voter identification. But the country has nothing close to the kind of uniform and fair rules it should have, such as requiring photo IDs at the polls and proof of U.S. citizenship at registration.

Public opinion is solidly behind such ideas. A recent Rasmussen poll showed that 82% of Americans, including 75% of Democrats, believe "people should be required to show a driver's license or some other form of photo ID before they are allowed to vote."

So why are such rules not universally in the law? Because people who try to enact them run into a buzz saw of racially tinged criticism. They are attacked as if they want to bring back the poll tax.

Sen. John Kerry followed the script while campaigning Sunday in a black church in Cleveland. "In battleground states across the country," Kerry said, "we're hearing stories of how people are trying to make it harder to file for additional time, or how they're making it harder to even register."

Kerry later accused Republicans "in various parts of the country" of trying to suppress votes and bully people.

Some election officials will do their best to keep elections clean, but they'll get little help and a lot of intimidation from those watchdogs looking for "disenfranchisement" that doesn't exist.

Then we have the Democrat version of the Brown Shirts, a duplication of the Nazi control of the streets in the 30s, as they rampage through GOP HQs around the country. Professor Bainbridge keeps reasonable score on the subject. Link courtesy of Reynolds. There can be no accident when the violence covers much of the country. This is now a Democratic tactic spawned by George Soros and his internet band of thugs AND MONEY.