by Jeff Davis

It now appears that Barack Obama has the Presidential election in the bag. Is it the shaky economy? Is it the latest polling data showing Obama ahead of McCain? No. Obama is going to cheat.

The Las Vegas Journal reports: “State authorities on Tuesday raided an organization that registers low-income people to vote, alleging that its canvassers falsified forms with bogus names, fake addresses or famous personalities. The secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after noticing that names did not match addresses and that most members of the Dallas Cowboys appeared to be registering in Nevada to vote in November’s general election… Agents with the secretary of state and state attorney general offices served a search warrant on the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, at 953 E. Sahara Ave. shortly after 9 a.m. They seized voter registration forms and computer databases to determine how many fake forms were submitted and identify employees who were responsible. They also sought information regarding current and past employees and managers.”

ACORN is a notorious left-wing grass roots organizing outfit. ACORN also played a major role in causing the subprime crisis by suing banks that didn’t make “enough” home loans to (unqualified) minorities. Now ACORN has been caught -in some cases- registering the same people to vote dozens of times.

The Journal article notes ” ‘Election officials routinely ignored this information and failed to act,’ Lewis said. ‘ACORN pleaded with them to take our concerns about fraudulent applications seriously.’ …Canvassers hired by ACORN were residents at the Casa Grande Transitional Housing Facility, a Nevada Department of Corrections institution that offers convicted felons an opportunity to take part in work-release programs. ‘It raises significant concerns that they hired prison inmates, some of whom have been convicted of identity theft,’ [a spokesman] said… Tuesday morning’s raid came on a day when ACORN had been planning a news conference and potluck lunch to celebrate the culmination of its voter registration drive, which the group said resulted in 90,000 new registrants since February, and to launch a get-out-the-vote push for the election.”

Great work release program there: getting homeless people and blacks to commit voter registration fraud for Obama. One enterprising ACORN worker claimed to register the Dallas Cowboys.

There are other stories like this coming out on the wires finally, way too late, only a few weeks before election day. The media is belatedly making a half-hearted attempt to start doing their job and properly investigate Barack Obama and his shady practices and the mysterious people around him. Will these stories have any effect? America is turning into a Third World nation with an African candidate and African-style vote fraud.