Nevada Indicts Nonprofit Group on Voter-Registration Irregularities
May 5, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
The antipoverty group whose drive to sign up new voters became a lightning rod for Republican criticism during last year’s presidential election has been charged by Nevada officials with voter-registration fraud, The New York Times reports.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, commonly known as Acorn, and two former leaders of its Nevada branch are accused of paying incentives to canvassers to exceed registration quotas, in violation of state law. Officials said about three-quarters of the approximately 91,000 registrations Acorn submitted in Clark County, Nev., were invalid.
Scott Levenson, a spokesman for Acorn, said the organization had fired the two employees responsible for the payment scheme and cooperated with investigators. He termed state officials’ decision to indict Acorn itself “political grandstanding.”
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