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Readers will also
recall that ACORN activists have long been involved in voter
registration fraud, either directly or through its Project Vote
affiliate. At least 70 ACORN/Project Vote employees have been convicted
of voter registration fraud in a dozen states since 2006. According to
a 2009 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report,
approximately a third of the 1.2 million new registrations turned in by
the two groups in 2008 were fraudulent.
Despite all this, documents obtained recently by Judicial Watch via the
Freedom of Information Act suggest that President Obama -- who was
employed by Project Vote as a community organizer early in his career
-- and Attorney General Eric Holder have no qualms about working
closely with present and former ACORN and Project Vote operatives on
voter registration drives aimed at people on public assistance.
Read more at the Washington
Examiner:
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Given
ACORN/Project Vote's extensive links to voter registration fraud
schemes across the country, House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa of California might want to ask Holder
about these matters on Feb. 2 when the attorney general appears before
the panel.
In the meanwhile—
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 Arizona's state legislature
will open its own investigation into the Obama administration's
disgraced gun-running program, known as "Fast and Furious," the speaker
of the state House said Friday.
Speaker Andy Tobin created the committee, and charged it with looking
at whether the program broke any state laws — raising the possibility
of state penalties against those responsible for the operation.
It's a turnaround from the rest of the immigration issue, where the
federal government has sued to block the state's own set of laws.
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