A lawyer involved with a lawsuit against ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has told WND that the organization is aware of the problems that are generated for elections officials when thousands or even millions of registrations are dumped into the system just before a deadline.
The comments came today from Heather Heidelbaugh, the vice president of the Republican National Lawyers Association.
She also testified before Congress on the issue.
Her comments came in an interview with Radio America, which is posted here:
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She reports she sued ACORN in Pennsylvania during the 2008 election when the organization, with whom President Obama has a long history, was being investigated by four different jurisdictions in just that state.
“They hire people who are very poorly equipped to do the kind of work, or not trained at all,” she said.
“They they tell workers is to walk up to individuals and ask if they voted in the last election. They don’t ask them if they’re registered. That produces thousands if not millions of duplicate registrations. It burdens local election officials to the extent they have to extend their work hours, and they are unable to properly process registrations,” she said.
GOP leaders have charged ACORN is little more than a front organization for Democrats, even though it is supposed to be nonpartisan.
ACORN recently was chosen by the government to have a major role in the 2010 Census, which will kick off in about a year.
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