More ACORN Funny Business in Indiana
May 19, 2009
I’ve already written about ACORN’s suspicious (and possibly illegal) voter registration activities in Nevada, which have attracted the attention of the Secretary of State’s and Attorney General’s offices. But why stop there? ACORN’s activities don’t.
In Indiana last year, ACORN came under attack for filing over 2,000 voter registration forms that CNN described as “bogus.” As the Republican election board member for Lake County, Indiana, Ruthann Hoagland, noted, “All the signatures looked exactly the same. Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same.”
You can believe that the schools of Lake County teach precise penmanship – or you can believe that ACORN was trying to register thousands of voters fraudulently. This is a state that Obama eventually carried by just over 26,000 votes, after a 20-point victory for Bush over Kerry in 2004.
Democrat member of the board Sally LaSota chimed in with this: “ACORN, with its intent, perhaps was good in the beginning, but went awry somewhere.” For her part, Hoagland, trying to be generous, said, “We have no idea what the motive behind it is. It is just overwhelming to us.”
I think I can guess.