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In Las Vegas, where the nonprofit group has been operating for only five years, members lobbied local government to build a sidewalk on Ogden Avenue so families taking their children to and from Hollingsworth Elementary School wouldn’t have to walk in the street. They worked to bring a grocery store to West Las Vegas after the area’s only supermarket closed. And ACORN staff members have helped locals apply for tax credits and avoid foreclosure.
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After more than a year of investigating, authorities have been unable to document any case in which an individual was illegally registered to vote, or illegally cast a ballot because of ACORN’s actions. But they believe ACORN’s quota system created the climate for widespread fraud.
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In Las Vegas, as it has done in other cities, ACORN provided the Election Department with the names of canvassers who had submitted fraudulent registration cards, but in this case the Election Department did nothing about it, Crawford said.
“We kept turning in people to the Election Department, but the authorities never prosecuted those people,” she said. “Instead, the secretary of state’s office investigated us.”
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