Today's Required Reading. (Lots Of It. And UPDATED.)

Stanly Kurtz has this devastating piece connecting the "community organizing" group ACORN, the Obama campaign, and the recent economic collapse; proving (like it needed to be) that greed and manipulating the system are not the preserve of the rich.

Read it all.

And when ACORN isn't trying to get the government to back billions for sub-prime loans in the name of "fairness," they are trying to purposely rig bring "fairness" to the democratic process:



Watch it all.

Other stories about ACORN and voter registration can be found here, here, and here; and especially this story: 1 Voter, 72 Registrations. It also shows that Obama's voter registration drive and ACORN's can be, well, the same:

ACORN's political wing has endorsed Barack Obama for president, but Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign in Ohio, said ACORN has no role in its get-out-the-vote drive.

During the primary season, however, the Obama camp paid another group, Citizen Service Inc., $832,598 for various political services, according to Federal Elections Commission filings. That group and ACORN share the same board of directors.

Yes, read 'em all.

And according to this article, and this follow-up, Obama himself used to be pretty tight with ACORN.

And read all of that, too. Hey, nobody said being an informed voter was easy.

UPDATE: More on Obama and ACORN voter fraud in today's Wall Street Journal. And according to this report (via Drudge), ACORN tried to register Mickey Mouse to vote in Florida.

UPDATE: Even more ACORN shennagans noted here. ACORN claims that (big surprise!) they are the real victims here.

UPDATE: More happening, as a Federal court rules today that Ohio's voter safeguards in the wake of ACORN are "effectively useless":

Late in the day – in a victory for Republicans – the full Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a decision made last week by three of its members. The result: Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must create computer programs to cross check all new voter registrations so that county boards of elections can doublecheck new registrants.

The Secretary of State will now have to verify new registrations by comparing information on them with data from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration.

“As far as we can tell, the problem with the current system (of cross-checking) is not that it is insufficiently user-friendly, but that it is effectively useless,” wrote Judge Jeffrey Sutton, writing for the majority.