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Ex-ACORN official gets probation for voter registration scheme...

Nov. 23, 2009
Ex-ACORN official gets probation for voter registration scheme...(Second column, 5th story, link)Related stories:Amid Calif. Attorney General Investigation, ACORN San Diego office dumps 20k docs in dumpster...
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ACORN pleads not guilty in Nevada

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- ACORN and its former deputy regional director have entered not guilty pleas to charges of violating Nevada's voter-registration laws.

Ex-ACORN employee pleads guilty

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A former ACORN official has pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against former community organizing colleagues in a Nevada voter registration fraud case.

Voter registration fraud charged in Pa.

PITTSBURGH, May 7 (UPI) -- Seven people affiliated with the activist group ACORN were charged Thursday in western Pennsylvania with voter registration fraud, officials said.

Woman charged with voter sign-up fraud

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A former voter registration worker for two groups has been charged in St. Louis with federal voter registration fraud, U.S. prosecutors said.

Catholic Church drops ACORN funding

BALTIMORE, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The Roman Catholic Church has halted donations to the community organizing group ACORN due to questionable voter registration drives, a church official says.

Official wants charges filed against ACORN

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Indiana's Republican secretary of state claims he has evidence the community group ACORN has submitted fraudulent voter registrations.

Palin calls out Obama about ACORN

WEST CHESTER, Ohio, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Sarah Palin called on Barack Obama's campaign to release communications it's had with the group accused of voter registration fraud in several U.S. states.
Obama: ACORN 'not advising' campaign

Obama: ACORN 'not advising' campaign

MAUMEE, Ohio, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama says a community activist group under siege by Republicans is "not advising our campaign."

ACORN drawing even more criticism

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A community-based organization's voter drive that has registered some 1.3 million voters is drawing allegations of fraud, observers say.

ACORN raided in Nevada vote fraud probe

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Nevada authorities said Tuesday they raided the Las Vegas offices of the controversial voter-registration activist group, ACORN.
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