Remember this exchange between Bruce Willis and Joel Haley Osment in "The Sixth Sense":
Osment: I see dead people.
Willis: In your dreams? While you're awake? Dead people like, in graves? In coffins?
Osment: Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead.
Willis: How often do you see them?
Osment: All the time. They're everywhere.
So it must have been when Lake County Clerk workers started going through those voter registration forms --- about 1,000 of them --- some union member and voter registrar dropped off in downtown Waukegan the other day. The Hound expects dead people to leave Graceland Cemetery, near Wrigley Field, on Election Day and vote in Cook County, but Lake County has always been a different matter.
Guess Democratic Machine politics finally made their way up here to light blue Lake County. The silly Hound thought we were above such funny goings on here. Wrong, again.
The question, though, is what will authorities do about this apparent attempt to undermine the electoral process after these registration forms which listed dead people, even pets, were turned in to the clerk's office? Supposedly, there's a criminal investigation going on. The Hound hopes they sniff out what exactly went wrong.
Hopefully, before Election Day. The Hound would hate to be in line ready to cast a vote standing next to dead people. That would be creepy and it would be days after Halloween.
Did you know that Willard claimed that a private investigator from Lake County, Indiana was the one who alerted her to the fraudulent forms? I wonder who was employing this mysterious investigator? Is it possible this is a GOP dirty trick to make it appear that African American voters are trying to steal the election in the Kirk/Seals race? Desperate times call for desperate measures, don't they?
THE HOUND SAYS: It is The Hound's understanding that a worker in the clerk's office spotted these bogus voter registrations. Besides, the registrations were from all over the Lake County portions of the 10th and 8th districts. An investigation into these registration forms is under way and The Hound believes Richard Nixon's White House Plumbers will have nothing to do with it. Get out of the '70s, J-Tad. It's the new millennium.
Dead people voting? No. However, my own cat has more sense than some of the people I've been talking to about the election lately, so let the pets vote.
THE HOUND SAYS: What, Irene, you mean dead people don't vote in North Carolina? How about goldfish?