With a historic Election Day coming tomorrow, it is clear that the McCain-Palin campaign's ACORN-voter fraud endgame is to use their relentless attacks as a justification for a possible wave of legal challenges to close election results in key states.

Over the weekend, McCain-Palin campaign manager Rick Davis made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows claiming that polls showed McCain "structurally tied" in New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada. Never mind that, as SilentPatriot at Crooks and Liars points out,

In Nevada, Obama leads in the last eight polls, with a margin between 4 and 12 points. In Colorado, excluding John Zogby's garbage internet polls, Obama has lead in every single poll taken since the end of September. The most recent PPP poll has him up a staggering 10 points. And in New Mexico, Obama leads in every poll since the second week in September. The last four polls average out to a 10.5 Obama lead.

Campaigns historically make claims of victory on the closing weekend before an election, but the McCain-Palin campaign and the RNC have been engaged in 6 weeks of smears and attacks on ACORN's record-breaking voter registration work, all part of a coordinated effort to cast doubt on the integrity of the election.

As Wade Henderson, President of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights told the New York Times on October 26th, "There is a real concern that the courts will be asked once again to weigh in on tight races where the losing party may seek to raise real questions about the legitimacy of the vote...You can't help but conclude that this is an effort to lay a foundation for a subsequent challenge to an Obama victory, should it occur."

Just last week, the Washington Independent reported that "[e]ven when the challenges fail, Republican officials persist in their claims of voter fraud in what appears to be an effort to lay the groundwork for challenging the outcome of Election Day."

But even Ronald Michaelson, member of the McCain-Palin "Honest and Open Election Committee" admitted over the weekend to Politico, "'Do we have a documented instance of voting fraud that resulted from a phony registration form? No.'" In other words, these attacks are a prelude to a concerted effort by conservatives, the GOP, and the McCain-Palin campaign to manufacture an "election integrity" crisis and use that pretense for a possible all-out fight to contest the outcome of tomorrow's results.

We are on the cusp of history and we owe it to ourselves and the people who came before us to ensure that this election reflects the will of the people. ACORN is already deeply engaged in Get Out The Vote (GOTV) work across the country and will be making a final all-out push tomorrow. We will be knocking on doors and calling voters on the phone, reminding them to vote tomorrow and bring ID. We will also be checking back to make sure they had no problems at the polls. We will also be sharing the information below, making sure that people know what to do if they are challenged on election day. All told we will be personally contacting over 500,000 voters.

Election protection resources and information for Election Day can be found in several places, including 1-866-OUR-VOTE, the
Election Protection, and Velvet Revolution's Election Protection Strike Force.