Another way to steal the vote

There has been a big stink about an organization named ACORN has been committing voter registration fraud as they worked to register 1.3 million new voters. As you might expect, it is the GOP who are committing fraud as they claim ACORN is doing so. It is unlikely any of those 1.3 million will vote GOP. Here is the basic story along with ACORN's response. Much of the claim is that ACORN is submitting fake registrations. Actually, ACORN must, by law, submit every registration they get. Otherwise they would be accused of suppressing valid registrations and disappointing voters who thought they were registered. With those suspect forms ACORN has also been including flags, saying "We think this is suspect and here is why." Sounds responsible to me.

And a scenario about how the GOP might use it to steal the election. They've started by planting the seeds of the idea that ACORN has been fraudulent. That allows them to do two things: (1) Be more aggressive in purging voter rolls. (2) Create the myth that the election was stolen in the same way that myth has clung to the 1960 election (Nixon conceded to Kennedy). Through that they would steal Obama's legitimacy and refute the claim that this election is about the repudiation of the Bush presidency.