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WESH-TV in Orlando is reporting:

Local elections officials are looking into potential election fraud and some of the information is pointing to a Democratic-leaning voter's group.

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations For Reform Now, has been registering thousands of new voters for this year's election, but in Seminole County, some voter applications are being withheld until it's proven they're legitimate. <SNIP>

Seminole County's elections supervisor is holding up dozens of voter registration applications because they appear to be fraudulent: wrong addresses, bad signatures and more. <SNIP>

Many of the applications with suspect information were turned-in by the activist group ACORN.

This is the same thing that ACORN was/is doing here in Michigan, which the Detroit Free Press reported on last week:

Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.

The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN's Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.

Here in Michigan, there are rumors that the state Attorney General's office is investigating.

John McCain has a slight 3-point lead in Michigan over Barack Obama (46-43) according to the Inside Michigan Politics Poll conducted by Lansing-based Marketing Resources Group  and released Tuesday Sept. 23, 2008.  The poll surveyed 600 likely voters Sept. 15-19 and has a MOE of 4.1 percent.

Key findings in the poll (from MRG's release):

• Obama enjoys strong support among women (+2%), young voters (+16%), African Americans (+89%) and in Metropolitian Detroit (+9%).
• McCain remains strong among blue-collar men (+10%), white males (+29%), conservatives (+62%) and in West Michigan (+12%) and in Flint/Sagnaw/Bay City Area (+8%).
• McCain's Fav/Unfav ratio is +14 (Down from +27 in March).
• Obama's Fav/Unfav ratio is +10 (Down from +24 in March).

More info on Marketing Resources Group here and Inside Michigan Politics here.

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