ACORN and voter registration

(Can you tell I'm having problems sleeping?)

In case the 3 readers of this blog noticed, I italicized "registration" in my last post when referring to voter registration. Why? Well, somebody already said it better than I. When it comes to the reporting on this, here's the deal:

"1) ...the statutes of most of those states require third parties registering prospective voters to submit all registration forms they receive; and 2) that actual instances of illegal votes being cast as a result of registration fraud are extremely rare."
(http://mediamatters.org/items/200810160020?newsref=www.eschatonblog.com)

This whole fixation on ACORN is one big put-on. It's voter registration! There's no vote fraud, which should be patently obvious, because we haven't voted yet. You can do whatever you want with your voting registration, but when you go to vote, you need to be able to vote as who's registered. Mickey Mouse isn't going to vote. You can complete 100 registrations for yourself, they'll still only let you vote once (er, we'll leave Chicago history out of this).

So when you hear somebody report about ACORN and voter fraud, roll your eyes and yell at the TV, "this is voter registration fraud!!!" This is not a threat to our democracy, and is simply a way for the GOP to discredit the election results, since McCain is going to get blown-out by Obama.