Analysts used to joke about waiting for the results from cemetery precincts in Chicago before calling elections. In Louisiana, that may be closer to the truth than one might imagine. WBRZ reports on a voter registration scandal that had Democrats submitting thousands of fraudulent enrollments, included George W. Bush and a bunch of dead people:

Secretary of State Jay Dardenne said Tuesday he will meet today with a Democrat-affiliated group responsible for a voter registration effort that is inundating East Baton Rouge and other parish registrars with bogus and incomplete applications.

Dardenne said his investigators are trying to determine if any state election laws have been violated as thousands of voter registration cards have been dumped on registrars offices through the efforts of VIP.

“We have some very real concerns about the data we are getting from them,” Dardenne said.

VIP is a Washington, D.C., group hired by national Democrats to register some 70,000 new voters in advance of the presidential and other federal elections this fall.

It’s easier to meet that goal when recruiters don’t pay attention to details, such as a pulse:

Two cards received in Caddo Parish had George W. Bush as the voter applicant with a 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. address in Shreveport, Dardenne said. Other cards have been filed for prisoners who cannot vote and dead people. In Jefferson Parish, a voter registration card was filed for the registrar of voters.

Louisiana Republicans demanded an investigation, and Dardenne assured them that he had already begun a probe into VIP’s activities. It would seem that “hope and change” in Louisiana means “more of the same”.

Voter fraud strikes at the heart of a democracy. If VIP conspired to inflate Democratic registrations unlawfully, the FBI has jurisdiction, as this qualifies as interstate commerce. Congress should also look into this latest corruption eruption in Louisiana.