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To: Sully- who wrote (31683)	3/15/2010 11:06:20 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

ACORN out of business in Ohio -- permanently? By: Mark Hemingway Commentary Staff Writer 03/11/10 2:55 PM EST As part of a legal settlement, ACORN has agreed to get out of the state of Ohio -- for good: <<< The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now will permanently surrender its Ohio business license by June 1 as part of a legal settlement with the conservative Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, both sides said yesterday. ACORN was active in Ohio in the 2006 and 2008 elections, working to register thousands of low-income people to vote and get them to the polls. The group's efforts were marred by irregularities, including one case in which ACORN workers allegedly induced a Cleveland man to register to vote 72 times, offering cigarettes as an incentive. The Buckeye Institute's 1851 Center for Constitutional Law teamed with two Warren County residents to sue ACORN in Warren County Common Pleas Court just before the 2008 election. The residents alleged that their rights were abridged by thousands of fraudulent voter registrations, each representing "a potential illegal vote that has the capacity to dilute (legitimate) votes." The case was moved to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Yesterday's settlement is mostly confidential, said Maurice A. Thompson, the conservative group's attorney. "They will surrender their business license by June 1 and cease to operate in Ohio and cease to support or enable other groups to do what they do," Thompson said. >>> It's possible that ACORN is so beleagured it simply doesn't have the money to fight back. Still, though the article doesn't mention it, this was a RICO lawsuit and the charges against the group were detailed and damning. For more on the Buckeye Institute's lawsuit, see here. Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com

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