From Family Research Council:
The excitement over the spike in voter registrations has quickly turned
to suspicion as officials in almost a dozen states have launched
investigations to determine whether these nine million Americans are
actually eligible. In the weeks leading up to November 4, the New York
Post
found dozens of people who have different names but share the same
story. Most of the accounts, like Christopher Barkley's, are from swing
states and involve ACORN, the "community activist group" submitting the
bulk of the new voter applications. Barkley says he was "hounded" to
register
by ACORN workers in Ohio, a crown jewel of the presidential race. "I
kept getting approached by folks who asked me to register. They'd ask
me if I
was registered. I'd say yes, and they'd ask me to do it again." Ohio
voter Lateala Goins told a Post
reporter, "You can tell them you're
registered as many times as you want; they do not care. They will
follow you to the buses, they will follow you home..." Another man in
Cleveland
says he "was given cash and cigarettes" by ACORN representatives for
registering a whopping 72 times in the last year and a half. The fraud
gets even
worse in Texas, where one county found that 4,000 of its registered
voters were dead-but even that didn't stop many of them from voting! In
Florida,
a state that President Bush won by less than 600 ballots in 2000, the Sun-Sentinel
learned that more than 30,000 felons are still on the
rolls, despite the law rendering them ineligible. Although 11 states
are investigating ACORN's role in widespread election fraud, time is
short. With the nation on edge and Americans sharply divided as to who
can lead us back, democracy cannot become corruption's next victim.
Regardless of who
wins, we all have a stake in an honest process.