Of fraudulent voting — and votes suppressed
The New Mexican
America's days of blatant fraud are very likely behind us
New Mexicans might be riled up by Republican claims to have found 28 fraudulent votes cast in the June Democratic primary election — were the complaining party itself not under a cloud at least as dark.
The party's charges had to do with Albuquerque's state House District 13, where incumbent Dan Silva was defeated. The voter-registration process appears to have had a hand in the as-yet unproved fraud. ACORN, the union-backed operation that's been behind big voter-registration increases here and around the country, claro, is the GOP's designated villain in the Albuquerque case.
ACORN — Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — is the bunch John McCain blasted in the last presidential debate and tried sticking on Barack Obama's shoes. It's been highly effective in many states, including ours, where it has put 80,000 new names on the rolls. Yet the voter-registration boost in New Mexico doesn't appear to have increased Democrats' long-held margin over McCain's party: Voter registrars must accept Democrats, Republicans or independents.
