ACORN answers voter-fraud allegations

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Community organization ACORN is fighting back after allegations that it is trying to register voters fraudulently and to swing the presidential election for Democrat Barack Obama. ACORN contends it tried to help authorities head off election fraud. "In nearly every case that has been reported, it was ACORN that discovered the bad forms and called them to the attention of election authorities, putting the forms in a package that identified them in writing as suspicious, encouraging election officials to investigate, and offering to help with prosecutions," ACORN said in an October 9 news release.

On Friday, a Pennsylvania judge rejected state Republican Party demands to obtain lists of voters registered by ACORN. "Even the general counsel of the RNC [Republican National Committee] has acknowledged that he cannot cite a single example of an improper vote having been cast as a result of alleged voter registration fraud," ACORN Executive Director Steve Kest said.

"This kind of manufactured crisis is masking [Republican] efforts to keep voters from voting," ACORN spokeswoman Ali Kronley told CNN. The group this week released a 30-second TV ad calling on Republican candidate John McCain to stop "attempts at voter suppression across the country." It also said it was filing several lawsuits around the country to halt the alleged suppression.

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