Ex-ACORN worker pleads no contest in western, Pa. case

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former western Pennsylvania Acorn worker has pleaded no contest to charges stemming from allegations that voter registration group’s workers forged, illegally solicited or illegally filled out voter registration cards for the 2008 general election.

Twenty-year-old Eric Jones, of Forest Hills, pleaded no contest Tuesday in Allegheny County Court to forgery, unsworn falsification, obstruction and interference with the function of the board of elections. Other charges, including dealing in quotas, were dropped.

Jones was sentenced to two years probation and agreed to cooperate in any voter fraud investigation.

Prosecutors charged seven ACORN workers in May. ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has denied using quotas.