Brace yourselves for a disappointing outcome in New Jersey. Even though
the unpopular Corzine has been falling behind in the polls, groups
associated with ACORN have been as busy as beavers working behind the
scenes registering ?voters? and engaging in absentee voter registration
fraud.

John Fund has been keeping a close eye on the situation, and doesn?t
like what he sees:

Plenty of reasons exist for suspecting absentee fraud may play a
significant role in tomorrow?s Garden State contests. Groups associated
with Acorn in neighboring Pennsylvania and New York appear to have moved
into the state. An independent candidate for mayor in Camden has already
leveled charges that voter fraud is occurring in his city. Meanwhile,
the Democratic Party in New Jersey is taking advantage of a new loosely
written vote-by-mail law to pressure county clerks not to vigorously use
signature checks to evaluate the authenticity of absentee ballots, the
only verification procedure allowed.

The state has received a flood of 180,000 absentee ballot requests.
On some 3,000 forms the signature doesn?t match the one on file with
county clerks. Yet citing concerns that voters would be disenfranchised,
Democratic Party lawyer Paul Josephson wrote New Jersey?s secretary of
state asking her ?to instruct County Clerks not to deny applications on
the basis of signature comparison alone.? Mr. Josephson maintained that
county clerks ?may be overworked and are likely not trained in
handwriting analysis? and insisted that voters with suspect applications
should be allowed to cast provisional ballots. Those ballots, of course,
would then provide a pool of votes that would be subject to litigation
in any recount, with the occupant of New Jersey?s highest office
determined by Florida 2000-style scrutiny of ballot applications.

Absentee voter fraud is in danger of becoming a hardy perennial in
New Jersey. Atlantic City Councilman Marty Small and 13 campaign workers
were indicted in September on charges of conspiring to commit election
fraud using absentee ballots. One worker pleaded guilty last month. In
Newark, five campaign workers were indicted in August on charges
involving absentee ballot fraud.

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