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ACORN: November 2009

ACORN Suing U.S. Over "Unconstitutional" Defunding Bill

Zachary Roth | November 12, 2009, 10:22AM

ACORN is suing the U.S. government over a law passed recently by Congress that bars the controversial community group from receiving federal money.

In a complaint filed this morning in U.S. District Court in New York, ACORN charges that the law is unconstitutional, because it's a bill of attainder -- that is, it targets a specific individual or group for punishment.

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Topics: ACORN, Bill Quigley, Center for Constitutional Rights, Defund ACORN Act, Jerry Nadler, John Boehner, Mike Johanns, Peter Orszag, Tim Geithner

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ACORN: We're Not Even Working In New Jersey

Zachary Roth | November 3, 2009, 6:09PM

John Fund

OK, here's what should be the nail in the coffin for conservative claims that ACORN is poised to steal the New Jersey governor's race through rampant voter fraud.

Brian Kettenring, an ACORN spokesman, tells TPMmuckraker that the much-maligned group has conducted absolutely no political or voter registration activity in the state during the 2009 cycle. And Kettenring added that ACORN had done very little such work during the 2008 cycle.

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Topics: ACORN, John Fund, Patrick Ruffini, Voting, voter fraud

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Voter Fraud -- Or Just A Case Of Mistaken Identity?

Rachel Slajda | November 3, 2009, 4:33PM

Some conservatives are proudly showing off what they claim is a real live case of voter fraud today. Election Journal and Red State are both trumpeting this 30-second video of a young voter in New Jersey telling the tale of his stolen vote.

Election Journal, which last year released a widely-played video of the New Black Panthers supposedly scaring voters from the polls, posted the video this afternoon under the title "Concerns over absentee ballots realized."

In it, the voter says he gave his name to election officials, only to find that he had already voted.

"I walk in there, tell them my name and it says that I have a mail thing, someone sent it in the mail. But I never sent mine in the mail, so I had to file a provisional in order to be able vote," says the voter, who identifies himself as Mark Allen of Galloway, N.J.

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Topics: ACORN, John Fund, NJ-GOV, voter fraud

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What's New? Lacking Evidence, Conservatives Again Stoke Voter Fraud Fears

Zachary Roth | November 3, 2009, 11:12AM

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Another election, another boatload of evidence-free Republican claims of voter fraud...

In part because it's the closest of the major races, the New Jersey governor's race has been the focus of the GOP's dire warnings. Here's how the campaign to stoke fears over voter fraud in the Garden State has ramped up in recent days: