The alleged ACORN voter fraud scandal is a big red herring. What ACORN did was collect hundreds of thousands of voter registration application forms in almost every state. Many of the names were bogus or duplicates or from people ineligible to vote, like convicted felons who had not had their voting rights restored. That would be voter application fraud.

Those forms got turned in to the state and local agencies which actually screen and register voters. ACORN does not register voters in any way, but federal law requires all the application forms to be turned in. Yes, even the ones that ACORN management knew were fake.

Any failure in the screening process would not be the result of anything ACORN did. In fact, ACORN probably registered a lot of people who had been illegally removed from the voter rolls by politicians in places like, Ohio and New Mexico, and Florida, just to mention the ones that come to mind easily. You know, those states that got federal supervision after the 2000 election scandals.

The GOP couldn't win or buy the 2008 election, but another one is coming up in 2010.