A BILLION DOLLARS A VOTE?:

Missouri officials suspect fake voter registration (BILL DRAPER, 10/07/08, Associated Press)

Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote. "I don't even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy," Davis said. "We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don't exist, people who have driver's license numbers that won't verify or Social Security numbers that won't verify. Some have no address at all."

Conspiracy theories have a hilarious tendency to butt up against the real incompetence of the supposed masterminds. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 9, 2008 10:03 AM