Voting Irregularities

Remember this from the Democrats?

The leader of the Democratic National Committee announced yesterday that he will launch an investigation into voting irregularities in Ohio.

And it wasn't just the voting that the Dems found to be "irregular":

(Ralph) Neas, who was joined by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond and civil rights lawyer Barbara Arnwine, said lawsuits are being prepared to challenge conservatives' electioneering tactics in some states.

That investigation has so far yielded nothing, but we have discovered this:

Five Democrats in East St. Louis have been charged in a scheme to buy votes in November's election in a federal indictment unsealed today.

Federal prosecutors in southern Illinois charged four Democratic committeemen and one precinct worker in the indictment.

Yesterday, four others pleaded guilty to related vote-buying charges in federal court.

Court records indicate voters were paid five or ten dollars to cast a Democratic ballot in the November second election.

They allege that the money to buy votes came from the St. Clair County Democratic Committee.

Couple that report with this one and it becomes clear where the dirty politics is being played:

Five Kerry-Edwards campaign staffers, including the sons of two prominent Milwaukee Democrats, were charged Monday with the election day tire slashings of 25 get-out-the-vote vehicles rented by Republicans.

Incredibly, the Dems dismiss this as some youthful prank: "This really doesn’t have anything to do with politics. ... This is something that some young people who used some incredibly bad judgment did on their own."

Five people, operating out of a Democrat campaign office commit vandalism on Republican vans and it has nothing to do with politics??