THE CHICAGO WAY – AT 9:11 A.M. ET:  We keep warning here that Republican victories in 2010 are not in the bag.  Any number of things can happen that will improve Democratic fortunes.  One of them is rarely reported – a coming attempt to change the voter registration system, making it more Chicago-friendly.  American Thinker has the story:

It's called universal voter registration. The Wall Street Journal's John Fund described the Democrat plan recently at a David Horowitz Freedom Center forum.

"In January, Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank will propose universal voter registration. What is universal voter registration? It means all of the state laws on elections will be overridden by a federal mandate. The feds will tell the states: 'take everyone on every list of welfare that you have, take everyone on every list of unemployed you have, take everyone on every list of property owners, take everyone on every list of driver's license holders and register them to vote regardless of whether they want to be ...'"

And then drag them to the polls.

Leftist groups are already arguing that universal voter registration will solve all the problems with our voting system. But the left created most of these problems. The radical leftist Nation Magazine, for example, absolutely loves the idea of universal voter registration. This is the same magazine, however, that advanced Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven's Manufactured Crisis strategy. The Cloward/Piven strategy was designed to undermine government institutions by overwhelming them with impossible demands for services. Cloward and Piven focused on welfare, housing, and voting as the main targets of this strategy, and the radical group ACORN was specifically created for the purpose of executing it.

And...

The problems with universal voter registration are numerous and obvious. Many states' lists include vast numbers of illegals, including some states which allow illegals to obtain drivers licenses; because many homeowners have more than one home, there will be duplicates; because so many people are on so many separate federal and state government agency lists, there will be duplicates; and because so many lists exist with little or no cross-checking capability, all of these duplicates are likely to go uncorrected. Add to this the fact that Dems hope to extend voting rights to felons, and the whole thing begins to look like a nationwide Democrat voter registration drive facilitated by taxpayers.

Which it is.  The key objective is to register as many people as possible who are dependent on government programs.  They are reliable Democrats.

The same people pushing universal registration originally pushed the Motor Voter law, which has created cesspools of corruption:

The Motor Voter law was correctly identified as a facilitator of vote fraud. One of the few legal issues Barack Obama actually participated in as a lawyer was a 1995 suit against the State of Illinois, which he brought on behalf of ACORN. Then-Republican Governor Jim Edgars saw the newly passed Motor Voter act as creating the potential for massive vote fraud and refused to implement it. With the assistance of the Clinton Justice Department, Obama's legal team won that suit...

...It is not surprising that the Democrats are now choosing to push this new initiative, for universal voter registration will be Motor Voter on turbochargers. And who better to sign it into law than the president from ACORN?

COMMENT:  I'm afraid it's all true.  There are George Soros-funded organizations that are working specifically to manipulate the voting system.  One aspect of this is to elect secretaries of state in the various states who are "ACORN-friendly."  Secretaries of state normally control election machinery.  It was a Soros-backed secretary of state in Minnesota who was enormously helpful in getting Al Franken his Senate seat.  (You'll recall that recounts were required, and the real election was razor-close.) 

Even though this may be a "Republican year," many election can turn out to be very close.  Loose registration rules and friendly secretaries of state may do for the Democratic Party what the party could never, based on merit, do for itself.

January 6, 2009