VOTER FRAUD: THE REPUBLICAN FAIRY TALE

You gotta hand it to the guys over at Politico. Republicans have been jumping up and down over the last few weeks about ACORN, phony voter registrations, and the threat they pose to the process. Heck, even John McCain said that ACORN, "is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy."

So Politico decided to ask a member of the McCain-Palin "Honest and Open Election Committee" to name a single instance where such phony registrations had lead to actual voter fraud at the polls. His response?

“Do we have a documented instance of voting fraud that resulted from a phony registration form? No, I can’t cite one, chapter and verse.”

That's a fancy way of saying, "Hello. We're trying to create a conservative hysteria over here! Do you mind?"

The rest of the article does a good job of minimizing the hysteria whipped up by Fox News and others - and again makes me wonder how many legal voters will be affected come Tuesday by the illegal voter purging that's been taking place the last few weeks.