John Fund has released an “revised and updated” version of his factually challenged 2004 book “Stealing Elections” in time for the 2008 election, publicized in a Sept. 28 Newsmax article by Dave Eberhart.
And promote he does, regurgitating Fund’s claim that “miscounts and voter fraud scandals everywhere from Seattle to Miami have rocked elections during the past several years — and, in very bad news for the election next month — many of the problems have not been resolved.”
Eberhart claims that “Fund details Obama’s involvement with ACORN throughout his career,” but there are questions about Fund’s veracity. As Media Matters details, Fund claims that “ACORN also runs something called “Camp Obama,” which trains campaign volunteers in the same tactics that Obama honed as a community organizer” — but the newspaper article Fund cites as evidence of his claim makes no mention of ACORN. In fact, Camp Obama is run by the Obama campaign to train volunteers how to recruit voters for Obama.
Eberhart also states that Fund’s book addresses “how ACORN led ‘the worst case of voter-registration fraud’ in Washington State’s history.” This appears to be a reference to a 2007 case of seven ACORN workers who were indicted in Seattle in 2007 for submitting more than 1,700 voter registration forms that were found to be fraudulent, many of which bore the names of celebrities or “nonexistent people.” But as Media Matters also points out, no votes were cast under those fradulent voter registrations.
Despite Fund’s additional dubious reporting, Eberhart’s article serves up several points at which one can buy the book from Newsmax’s store.