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Article: the trail: acorn; VOTER SIGN-UP SETS OFF A FUROR; Charges, countercharges about voter registration fraud center on the community group ACORN.(NEWS)(SERIES: the trail)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 24, 2008
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Byline: KEVIN DIAZ; STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON More than 43,000 Minnesotans have registered to vote this year through ACORN, the group that has come under Republican attack over voter registration irregularities around the nation. But despite calls by state and national GOP groups to investigate ACORN, election officials in Hennepin and Ramsey counties say there is scant evidence of fraud, other than a few hundred late registration filings.
There are other kinds of problems. ACORN workers acknowledge that as many as a third or more of the registration applications they turn over to election officials are rejected for technical reasons, such as incomplete names, addresses ...