Barack Obama yesterday distanced himself from the activist group ACORN, which has become tangled up in a national voter-registration fraud scandal.
“We’ve got the best voter registration and turnout and volunteer operation in politics right now, and we don’t need ACORN’s help,” said Obama, who once represented the group as an attorney and worked with it when he was a Chicago organizer.
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Meanwhile, an ACORN canvasser linked to an Ohio voter-registration-fraud probe is an accused forger, and two of her fellow workers were convicted felons, The Post has learned.
The use of felons to register voters violates an Ohio law, and ACORN requires its canvassers to sign a document swearing they have no felony convictions.
All three were on a list of workers submitted by ACORN to Cleveland election officials. Their initials appeared on some questioned forms.
ACORN says it checks employees’ background and criminal records.