The National Investigation of ACORN Must Lead to High-Profile Scalps

How many times does ACORN get to pass off its fraudulent vote-registration efforts as the work of rogue employees before the claim loses its crediblity?

I’d say we’re well past that time, as is clear from John Fund’s Wednesday column at OpinionJournal.com:

….. The organization says on its Web site that it “registered over 540,000 low-income and minority voters” and deployed over 4,000 get-out-the-vote workers for yesterday’s elections. But after years of scandal involving its election efforts and misuse of government grants, Acorn is finally coming under scrutiny, with four of its Kansas City, Mo., workers under indictment for submitting false voter registrations. (As of this writing, all are at large.) Other states–including Pennsylvania and Maryland–are also conducting probes. Notes the U.S. attorney’s office in Kansas City: “This national investigation is very much ongoing.”

….. One of those states is Missouri. St. Louis election officials were so inundated with bogus Acorn-generated voter registrants that they mailed a letter to 5,000 registrants, requesting the recipients to contact them. Fewer than 40 responded. Mr. Rathke attacked the officials as “slop buckets” and claimed they had “broken the law in trying to discourage new voters illegally.”

ACORN should be prohibited from engaging in any voter-registration drives again, PERIOD.