David Spett

HARRISBURG (Oct. 23) – Republicans have no standing to sue ACORN, a community organizing group that says it registered 140,000 low-income Pennsylvanians to vote, a lawyer for the group argued at a Commonwealth Court hearing Thursday.

“Article III of the Constitution says a plaintiff must have suffered an injury” to have standing to sue, said Kathryn Simpson, a Harrisburg attorney representing ACORN. “There is no voter fraud. There has been no election. … And until there is voter fraud, there is no injury. That injury must be concrete, not conjectural or hypothetical.”

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HARRISBURG (Oct. 23) – Albert Masland, chief counsel for the Department of State and a GOP state representative from 1992 to 2000, rebuked leaders of his party on Thursday who said the results of next month’s presidential election cannot be trusted.

“As a registered Republican, I bemoan the tone of this petition,” Masland said of the lawsuit Republicans filed against the Department of State. “I bemoan the tone of the press conferences that have been waged unfairly and untruthfully.”

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