Just wanted to flash back to before the election when every Republican, including Secretary of State Todd Rokita, was making a big deal about ACORN. Hey, look at this:

So much for ACORN’s voter registrations gumming up the works on Election Day.

Precinct workers reported just a handful of disputes Nov. 4 with voters who were part of the 5,000 registrations the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now collected in Lake County.

Elections officials set aside about 2,000 ACORN registrations they could not confirm were accurate ahead of the election, deciding that given the furor over the group it wouldn’t be prudent to add the voters to the rolls.

They then braced themselves for phone calls from irate residents all over the county wondering why their names weren’t on the poll books.

But the flood never came.

“We had about five calls,” said County Elections Supervisor Michelle Fajman.

You don’t suppose Rokita and his merry band of partisans drummed up a controversy as an attempt to suppress turnout in Democratic areas, do you?

I mean, he’s supposed to administer elections in a fair and impartial manner, and he already has one of the strictest voter ID laws in the nation on the books, so I just can’t imagine…

Oh, wait. Yes, I can. But it didn’t matter. All the scare tactics and hate-mongering didn’t work, and Barack Obama carried our state.

It’ll never stop feeling good to write that.

Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita says nearly two-thirds of the state’s mortgage brokers didn’t bother to take a standardized license exam as required by law.

The General Assembly passed the law last year to toughen requirement for brokers.

Rokita says out of the 950 licensed brokers, 639 never bothered to take the exam so they’re facing license revocation.

They have until August 5 to take the exam.

It’s also not like it’s a hard test. Out of the 300 brokers who’ve already taken the test, only 46 never passed.

And please note, 67-percent of Indiana’s real estate business is done through mortgage brokers so is anyone surprised that this state is in its current foreclosure crisis?