This is great news for the state of Ohio. ACORN, notorious for allegedly trying to inflate voter rolls through fraudulent practices, has seen its last election in Ohio.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now will permanently surrender its Ohio business license by June1 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.”

…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.

Alphonse A. Gerhardstein, the attorney for ACORN in Ohio, said the organization already has left Ohio “for reasons that are unrelated to this litigation.” After the 2008 election, in which some credited or blamed ACORN for the election of Barack Obama as president, ACORN has dialed back its political activity across the country.

ACORN continues to deny any wrongdoing in Ohio, Gerhardstein said. The settlement doesn’t award court costs or attorney’s fees to either side, he said.

“They’ve already stopped (working in Ohio), and they’re going to formalize that by June 1, 2010,” Gerhardstein said.

Now we just need for the other states to follow through and get rid of this corrupt organization.

Via Columbus Dispatch

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You just can’t keep a corrupt organization out of the news. The Wisconsin Attorney General has charged Acorn workers with voter fraud in the November 2008 general election.

Washington Examiner – Two of those charged, Maria Miles and Kevin Clancy, are workers for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the embattled community group.

“The complaint alleges that Miles and Clancy submitted multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals, and also were part of a scheme in which they and other (special registration deputies) registered each other to vote multiple times in order to meet voter registration quotas imposed by ACORN,” Van Hollen states in the release.

Also charged were a couple accused of double voting – once absentee and once at the polls – and a felon who cast a ballot even though he was still on probation for a felony offense.

The charges were brought as part of the Milwaukee Election Fraud Task Force.

Van Hollen’s announcement comes the same day that No Quarter disclosed that the Milwaukee County prosecutor for election fraud accused Milwaukee police of sitting on their hands and failing to investigate such cases for the first half of last year.

Acorn workers have been investigated in at least 14 states and several swing states so far.

Read what others are saying at memeorandum

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The blatant deceit of Barack Obama is troubling to me and others. This is one of the most dishonest administrations in the history of American politics. If you have any doubts watch this hideous Obama lie on ACORN caught on tape.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) released information on Barack Obama’s relationship with ACORN at CPAC this week.

“When I ran project vote, the voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it. Once I was elected there wasn’t a campaign that ACORN worked on down in Springfield that I wasn’t right there with you. Since I have been in the United States Senate I’ve been always a partner with ACORN as well. I’ve been fighting with ACORN, along side ACORN, on issues you care about my entire career.”

Gateway Pundit has the exclusive details on this story! Dittos to Jim Hoft on his great work exposing the continued deception by Barack Obama. As time goes by we are discovering the truth about Barack Obama.

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