Atlanta Still Doesn't Have A New Mayor

*Sigh* This is the story that just won't stop, and while it isn't as compelling as Tiger Woods bedding the entire Swedish ski team while bodies are being carted out of his house, it is something that is dragging on just as long. I now know how the folks in Minnesota during the whole Franken/Coleman recount debacle must have felt.

Here is where we are in Atlanta right now. Kasim Reed has the lead by 715 votes, the other candidate Mary Norwood has promised to file for a recount, but she hasn't done so yet. She has until 5 PM EST today to file that motion.

Last night word came out that the Secretary of State's office is now investigating allegations of 1300 votes that may have been rendered by people who either no longer lived in the Atlanta city limits or some other scheme may have been in action.

Of course it is widely suspected that those 1300 votes, if that is indeed the case, came from former residents of public housing. Atlanta shut down the last of it's public housing earlier this year and a lot of those folks were absorbed into the neighboring counties, meaning these people are no longer residents of Atlanta and therefore ineligible to vote in the mayor's race.

Listen we aren't talking about folks who are exactly the sharpest pencils in the box, if you know what I mean. If somebody asked them if they had voted yet and they said no they wouldn't know that they aren't eligible.

I don't think this was as much a concerted effort by one candidate as it was simply a case of these people probably hopped on the public transportation, went back to their old neighborhoods and old polling places and did what they have done for generations. Vote for the black guy.

There is no ACORN around here. They pulled up stakes earlier in the year and moved up to North Carolina. Their work here was done.