What a despicable LIE! Demand a correction and apology:

Michelle Malkin malkin@comcast.net
NewsMax.com 561-686-1165 http://newsmax.com/contact.shtml

Michelle Malkin and NewsMax falsely claimed ACORN registered accused terrorist to vote
http://mediamatters.org/items/200410270005

In her October 27 nationally syndicated column, conservative pundit Michelle Malkin erroneously claimed that The Columbus Dispatch reported that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) registered illegal alien and accused terrorist Nuradin Abdi to vote in Ohio. While The Columbus Dispatch did report that Abdi was illegally registered to vote in Ohio, the paper never reported that ACORN registered Abdi. Rather, according to the Dispatch, Abdi appears to have registered to vote at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

Here's a simple proposal:

Let's pass a law that automatically registers every taxpayer (and dependent) to vote.

Why?

Because the current voter registration system is insane - and because it would be so easy to do.

All taxpayer records are computerized. They are kept exceptionally clean, so there are very few duplicates or errors.

What is the possible downside?

If someone doesn't want to vote, they don't have to.

If someone isn't a taxpayer or dependent, they can register under the current system.

If someone is a taxpayer but not a citizen, a flag would have to be set somehow in the file so the person would not be eligible to vote.

Politically, it's a win-win.

Republicans would love this system because fraud would be practically non-existent.

Democrats would love this system because every eligible citizen would be automatically registered to vote, saving hundreds of millions in voter registration drives and voter protection campaigns.

Election officials would love this system because they would not have to maintain a massive database filled with errors large and small that cause nightmares before, during, and after Election Day.

All in favor?

THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
Signs of Voter Fraud Appear
Registrations that are faked or tossed out have emerged in key states struggling to comply with ballot reform and a flood of new signups.
By Richard Serrano and Ralph Vartabedian
Times Staff Writers

October 27, 2004

LAS VEGAS — Broke, disabled and living at the Daisy Motel in downtown Las Vegas, Tyrone Mrasek Sr. took a temporary job late this summer registering voters here.

The employer primarily wanted President Bush supporters, but they were not easy to find. So Mrasek handed out cigarettes to drunks and ex-felons at a homeless shelter in exchange for signatures. Later he found a stack of signed registrations for Democratic voters in a trash can outside the company's office, he recalled.

10/27/2004
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ALERT: It's already started.

Remember four years ago? Remember the legions of lawyers flown in by the Democrats to challenge the legal results of George W. Bush's win in Florida? Remember how they tried to STEAL the election?

They're ready to do it again, in state after state after state. It's been reported that the Kerry campaign will have lawyer teams sitting on runways in private jets, ready to swoop down into any state where the vote tallies are close at all. These vultures are more than willing to drag this election out as long as they can to try and force the results they want -- just like Al Gore tried to do in 2000.

This strikes me as a new kind of "literacy test" - obviously if the government makes registration forms more complicated, more forms will be rejected for some minor error. If a registration form is defective, the voters should be notified and given the opportunity to correct the error.

Posted on Wed, Oct. 27, 2004  
Miami Herald
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/10021856.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
Wed, Oct. 27, 2004
Ruling blocks hopeful voters
Thousands of Floridians won't be able to vote in five urban counties because they failed to complete their voter registration applications, a Miami federal judge said.
BY JAY WEAVER
jweaver@herald.com

A Miami federal judge on Tuesday tossed out a lawsuit that sought to allow thousands of Floridians to vote in next week's general election, saying county and state officials didn't have to process incomplete voter registration applications.

This sucks.

New Florida vote scandal feared 
By Greg Palast
Reporting for BBC's Newsnight

A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.

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