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The Fraud of Voting Scandals.

Adam Serwer on the continuing battle over voter fraud:

Two days before New Jersey's gubernatorial election, Wall Street Journal columnist and voter-fraud hype-man John Fund warned the election might be stolen away from Republican Chris Christie through voter fraud. "Local politicos," he wrote, "tell me Philly operatives associated in the past with Acorn may now be advising their Jersey cousins on how to perform such vote harvesting."

That's quite a hedge -- and understandably so, given that ACORN had "conducted absolutely no political or voter registration activity" in New Jersey during the 2009 cycle. A few hours later Fund went on The Glenn Beck Show to strike fear into the hearts of Beck's viewers: "People are going door to door in parts of Camden with Hispanics that don't have very much knowledge of English, and they're saying, 'We have a new way for you to vote, la nueva forma de votar; just fill out these papers.'"

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