Vigilantes And Acorns

Why isn't this guy being fired?

COLUMBUS — Law enforcement officials in southwest Ohio are seeking information on hundreds of voters who registered and voted during Ohio's weeklong same-day voting window.

Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer and representatives of County Prosecutor Stephen Haller have contacted the local Board of Elections asking for the voter registration cards of everyone who voted during the six-day window, which ended Monday.

Haller is the law partner of former Senator Mike DeWine, who is... wait for it... John McCain's campaign co-chair.

This gives witch hunts a bad name. The girls from Salem are whispering to each other that this guy's going too far.

Jennifer Brunner is a good Secretary of State and she'll probably turn this down flat, but that doesn't mean I'm any less unsettled.

And meanwhile, ACORN's morphing into a conservative piñata is almost complete. John McCain attacked them by name today.

"You've seen the allegations, the multiple registrations under the same name, the more registered voters than the population, these are serious allegations, my friends, and they must be investigated, and they must be investigated immediately and they must be stopped before November the fourth, so Americans will not -- will not -- be deprived of a fair process in this election.

This is completely ridiculous. The reason that ACORN employees are filling out multiple registrations is that they get paid on a per-form basis. The quality control is bad, but in every case I've seen, they SPECIFICALLY FLAG SUSPECT REGISTRATIONS before they send them to the Board of Elections, effectively turning themselves in. Furthermore, if Mickey Mouse is on a voter registration form, it's not like Mickey Mouse is showing up at the polling place. Don't believe me - believe The Wall Street Journal, ferchrissakes.

And the delegitimization project continues.