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Article: ACORN Defeats Anti-Voter Legal Attacks; Group's Voter Registration Efforts Vindicated as Baseless Lawsuits Collapse
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- December 14, 2005
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, ACORN (Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now) announced that the last of
three politically-motivated lawsuits filed against the group in the
wake of its successful 2004 voter outreach drive has been "dismissed
with prejudice." Each of the three cases (two in Florida and one in
Ohio) were brought by partisan law firms based on unfounded
allegations of "voter fraud" against the organization -- and all
three cases have been dismissed.
In 2004, ACORN ran the largest non-partisan voter outreach program
and assisted more 1.1 million low and moderate income and minority
voters nationwide in registering to vote, including 210,000 in ...