Is ACORN plotting big-time fraud on behalf of Democrats in Houston this year?

To find the most effective mass voter registration drive in Houston, check bus shelters, public hospital waiting rooms, job search centers and welfare offices.

There — as opposed to PTO meetings, art festivals, naturalization ceremonies and other typical sites for civic activity — is where ACORN has been methodically signing up poor and working-class citizens this year.

In fact, the local chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has registered more voters in Harris County this year than the combined totals of all other local groups using deputized voter registrars, according to county officials.

One of their workers claims to have registered nearly 1100 voters personally. Anyone suspicious of those numbers? I sure am, especially given the history of voter fraud in ACORN registration drives -- with over 20 documented cases of major voter registration fraud in 13 states in the last 10 years alone.

With ACORN in town conducting a voter registration drive, I sure hope Paul Bettencourt's office is hiring new staff to look for fraudulent registrations. He's sure going to need the extra bodies and a lot of overtime to review each and every one of the applications.