But Aunt Ethel, who passed away and had a lovely burial ceremony in 2005, just might.

Which is the elephant left ignored by the claims that ACORN’s fraudulent voter registration antics will be of no consequence in the coming election.

True enough, cartoon characters and pro-sports figures fraudulently registered by ACORN operatives (dare we say ‘community activists’) probably won’t show up at the polling place near the bogus addresses used, but then again, that isn’t the problem, just more cover noise.

The real problem comes from otherwise apparently innocuous and otherwise apparently authentic registrations that don’t immediately raise flags in the system, and are processed through the system, but are in fact fraudulent, using either the identity of someone deceased, or multiply registering the same person at multiple addresses.

Keep this in mind - the fraudulent registrations that make it through the system will be issued a voter registration card, which ACORN, among others, has fought to keep as the sole form of identification required to cast a ballot. It isn’t really even a stretch of the imagination to envision a scenario where such fraudulent registration cards could be collected, then distributed to willing participants with a pulse, who could then go in and vote as many times as they had cards for, by casting votes in multiple polling places to avoid being recognized. A single van full of 8 to 10 people actively working the task could literally cast hundreds of illegal votes in a fairly densely populated area with a lot of polling places, and a lot of bogus registration cards. It is a matter of simple math to arrive at a potential for thousands of bogus ballots to be cast by adding a few more vans of 8 to 10 ‘volunteers’.

Thing is, unless an astute law enforcement agency actually catches them red-handed doing it, the rest of us, whose votes will have been diluted in a manner much worse than the dangling/hanging/pregnant chads of South Florida ever did - deliberately - won’t hear the true extent of this until after the election, if ever, at which point remedial actions will be limited, and very, very difficult to effect.

Many have heard the lament that if you’re rich, you can ‘buy’ the Presidency - and although this is debatable, it may turn out that Barack Obama’s ‘winning bid’ is a scant $832,000 dollars.

Which is one helluva bargain, if he gets away with it.