Constitutional Law

Pa. Judge Dismisses Challenge To ACORN

A Pennsylvania judge set aside a lawsuit to force the community organizing group, ACORN, to give the state Republican Party a list of voters it had registered. The party sued seeking a list of 140,000 voters, claiming it included improperly registered voters, and also an order to force ACORN to air public-service announcements that voters must bring identification with them to the polls. The Associated Press reported that Judge Robert Simpson Jr., “was not convinced that the party and its fellow individual plaintiffs” could “ultimately prove their allegations that ACORN is fostering voter-registration fraud and that the state’s election system lacks the safeguards to stop it.”

The judge also ruled that county election officials do not have to bar voters wearing political buttons or t-shirts from voting.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on October 31, 2008 (boomark / email).