ACORN’s return isn’t prohibited

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

The community organizing group ACORN is not expressly prohibited from returning to Ohio under a settlement reached in a lawsuit that claimed it used fraudulent voter-registration practices.

But a lawyer for a libertarian group that filed the lawsuit on behalf of two voters said Saturday that it would fight in court any attempt by ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — to reopen its doors in Ohio for voter registration purposes.

ACORN has ceased operations in Ohio.

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