Voting 2008 Blog 

With one day left until election day, decisions in many of the lawsuits filed over the course of the last few weeks are starting to come down. On Friday, a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court denied a request by the GOP that would have forced the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), to turn over lists of the more than 140,000 voters it claimed to have registered and required ACORN to air public-service announcements instructing voters to bring photo IDs with them to polling places. While the GOP argued that Pennsylvania's election system was not adequate to guard against voting fraud, Judge Robert Simpson Jr. stated that the GOP did not prove that ACORN was fostering voter fraud.

In other ACORN news, Florida Governor Charlie Crist stated that he did not believe that ACORN and voter fraud were significant problems in his state. Meanwhile, Congressman John Boehner (R-Ohio) expressed disappointment with the way the Department of Justice is investigating allegations of voter fraud. In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Boehner accused the DOJ of "playing politics" with voting fraud allegations and urged Mukasey to station criminal prosecutors at Ohio polling places.

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