Felons helping felons elect a government of felons

According to this report from Election Journal via Ed Morrissey, the New Jersey Democratic Party is using criminals for its get-out-the-vote effort in New Jersey. These “community organizers” are given names and addresses of potential voters, including those, in this case, of a police officer who recognized one of the criminals.

This is of a kind with the 2004 effort by the Kerry campaign and its use of Americans Coming Together, as described in this older Morrissey post. Then there were the 2008 efforts by the notorious ACORN to get out the vote on behalf of Barack Obama. Those efforts are under investigation or have resulted in charges in several states.

And who can forget the voter intimidation last November by the New Black Panther Party across the river from New Jersey in Philadelphia. The career lawyers at the Justice Department had already secured a default judgment against these goons and were about to get sanctions against them, when the Eric Holder political appointees at Justice ordered the case dropped. But Democrats would have us believe that the Holder Justice Department is non-politicized, unlike that bad Bush Justice Department. The fact that Holder was hip-deep involved in the corrupt pardon of Marc Rich by Bill Clinton is also conveniently forgotten in this myth about his allegedly non-political decision-making.

This is all of a sort with the political appeals that Democrats have been making for years to the Felon-American community. Democrats have been at the forefront of allowing felons to vote, even if they are still in prison, and of repealing or judicially overturning state laws that prohibit convicted felons from voting. On that latter score, the courts have disagreed with their constitutional and statutory arguments.

The state of New Jersey is probably the most politically corrupt state in the Union, with the possible exception of the President’s home state, Illinois. So, of course, the New Jersey governor has tried to claw his way back into the race by attaching himself politically to Mr. Obama. The corruption in New Jersey is deep, endemic, and Democratic, ensnaring the governor as at least an aider and abettor. As a former head of Goldman, Sachs the governor is not in a position to carry on the feigned “I’m shocked,” Captain Reynaud act.

But that doesn’t mean that Corzine will lose his re-election bid. If the race is at all close, the corrupt Democratic state machine and its allies in the Service Employees’ International Union will find enough suddenly-discovered ballots in the trunks of cars or in boxes left behind water coolers to swing the election to Corzine. That is what happened with the Washington State election for governor in 2004 and the Minnesota Senate election in 2008. For some reason, when Republicans are ahead by small numbers, they never end up ahead after the magic Democratic ballots appear. But the tide never goes the other way.

The Republican, Chris Christie, has been leading this race for a long time, and the polls long have shown him ahead. But some of the polls are close and within the margin of error. Left-wing Democratic groups are already pressing ahead to ignore the signature requirements on absentee ballots and to have defective ballots like that counted “provisionally” to establish a high vote total for the Democratic candidate either to thwart a recount if the Democrat leads, to produce one if the Republican leads narrowly, or to establish a position that makes it difficult to discard a lot of ballots without bogus charges of disenfranchisement.

Hugh Hewitt wrote a book, If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat, about turning out the Republican vote to prevent the predictable Democratic Party tactics in close races. That would be a word to the wise today.