Much has been made in the news regarding the voter fraud being carried out by the group ACORN. They are the big name in the voter fraud across the country right now, and are at best, making people wary of Obama's connections to them, and at worst, literally stealing the election.

Americans far and near cried foul in both the 2000 and 2004 elections, claiming that George W. Bush somehow stole the election in Florida, or that his campaign was responsible for disenfranchising voters in the 2004 election in Ohio. The folks on the front lines fighting against voter fraud were mysteriously silent in the ACORN case. Perhaps they felt it was karma for Bush winning previously, or maybe it was just a simple disdain towards Republicans and conservatives, blinded into thinking that only the right-wingers could be responsible for voter fraud, not the left-wing groups that support their candidates and causes.

A person I kept in touch with throughout the 2004 campaign and respected, Brad Friedman - although we had differences in political ideology - was at the forefront of voter fraud issues and has been a champion against the electronic voting machines, has unfortunately become a bit overzealous in his partisanship and has dismissed any charges against ACORN as phony.

The truth, however, always finds a way to creep out and rise to the surface. The sheer amount of evidence against ACORN is undeniable and in many cases, unbelievable.

In Missouri, officials are sorting through possibly hundreds of false voter registration forms, coming from ACORN, according to Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson county, which encompasses Kansas City:

"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."

In Ohio, perhaps the worst of all offenses is occurring. Freddie Johnson has filled out 72 voter registration cards in 18 months for ACORN:

"Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they'll give me a dollar to sign up," said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

"The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I am already registered. The girl said, 'You are?' I say, 'Yup,' and then they say, 'Can you just sign up again?' " he said.

That's not all. Two other Ohio residents have been subpoenaed by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections for the ACORN fraud as well. Christopher Barkley and Lateala Goins have both been hounded by ACORN relentlessly to register, even though they have already done so:

Barkley estimated he'd registered to vote "10 to 15" times after canvassers for ACORN, whose political wing has endorsed Barack Obama, relentlessly pursued him and others. "I kept getting approached by folks who asked me to register," Barkley said. "They'd ask me if I was registered. I'd say yes, and they'd ask me to do it [register] again. "Some of them were getting paid to collect names. That was their sob story, and I bought it," he said.

"You can tell them you're registered as many times as you want - they do not care," said Lateala Goins, 21. "They will follow you to the buses, they will follow you home, it does not matter," she told The Post. She added that she never put down an address on any of the registration forms, just her name.

ACORN is even under investigation in Connecticut for allegedly registering a seven-year old to vote! In Nevada, the ACORN office in Las Vegas was even raided in a voter-fraud probe which was the pinnacle of a task force set up to pursue elections fraud in the state nearly two months ago. The problems here were just as disturbing as in Ohio.

"Some of these (forms) were facially fraudulent; we basically had the starting lineup for the Dallas Cowboys," Secretary of State Ross Miller said. "Tony Romo is not registered to vote in Nevada. Anyone trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot."

Back in Ohio, the Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, was found to have broken federal law by not giving county elections boards the chance to determine whether new voter registrations are fraudulent. Brunner however, doesn't seem to care to much, and is appealing the ruling. As there are only a few days left for absentee ballots to be challenged for voter fraud, any time lost is letting more fraudulent votes get into the system.

ACORN has even admitted that they can't stop the voter fraud in Ohio from happening, blaming inefficiency and lack of resources for their problems, even though they had enough "resources" to register over 65,000 new voters in Cuyahoga County alone.

The ACORN scandal is a problem for Obama on a couple fronts. First, while non-partisan, the group's leaders have endorsed Barack Obama for President. Second, during the primary season, the Obama Campaign paid a company - Citizen Service Inc. - $832,598 for various political services. The connection to ACORN is that both groups have the same board of directors.

ACORN isn't the only problem though. In Houston, over 4000 voters have been found to be deceased, yet still on the rolls and even worse, found to have actually voted, after their death. Purging voters from the rolls could be classified under laziness or inadequate resources, but having the deceased vote cannot.

The case in Indianapolis is perhaps the most puzzling. Marion County, Indiana, where Indianapolis is located has an interesting problem. As of October 7, there were 677,401 voters registered in the county. However, according to the state's census data in 2006, there are only 632,897 eligible voters, which puts the eligible voters at 107% of the actual population. Granted, the population could have changed since 2006, but a net gain of 40,000 voters in two years, with all of them registering seems fishy. If you're wondering how I got the number of eligible voters, simply add up all the population groups from 18-24 and up together and you've got it.

This is one of those, even though I've got all my ducks lined up and the facts seem to back everything up, I hope that I'm wrong, if only to preserve the integrity of our electoral system. However, I highly doubt this to be the case (otherwise I wouldn't have written a lengthy piece) and feel that it will cause a no-win situation for our country no matter who is elected this November. If Obama wins, we'll be talking about voter fraud for his Presidency. Should McCain win, the election will have been stolen because the voter fraud didn't exist, at least according to the bitter Obama supporters. I'm praying that we find the truth, no matter how hard that is to swallow on either side.