David Spett

HARRISBURG (Oct. 29) – The community organizing group ACORN is disputing a New York Times report that it “vastly overstated” the number of new voters it registered.

The Times reported Friday that ACORN had only registered 450,000, not 1.3 million, new voters this election cycle. But ACORN said it still had reason to claim 1.3 million registrants.

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HARRISBURG (Oct. 29) – A Philadelphia representative said he’s outraged over Gov. Ed Rendell’s surprise veto of a land transfer bill that passed both chambers on the last day of the legislative session this month.

The bill, Senate Bill 740, would have transferred about 17 acres of Delaware River riparian rights and 305 acres of adjacent land from the state to the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority to develop a container-shipping terminal called Southport.

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HARRISBURG (Oct. 29) – A top Philadelphia elections official said Wednesday that ACORN, a community organizing group that says it’s helped 140,000 voters in the state register to vote, did a “not very good” job of screening the registrations they collected.

“Some that they’ve flagged [as suspicious] are actually good,” said Fred Voigt, deputy city commissioner of Philadelphia, where ACORN says it helped to register 85,000 voters.

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