ACORN is doing good work in New Mexico
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This guest column is in response to recent controversies in Doña Ana County that you can read about by clicking here, here and here. By Dana Gallegos On Monday, ACORN registered its 40,000th voter in New Mexico this year, making this already the largest drive in state history and bringing to 92,000 the total of New Mexicans ACORN has registered since 2000. However, ACORN doesn’t just register new voters. We make sure they get the encouragement and support they need to cast a ballot, many for the first time. In fact, a study of the voters we registered in New Mexico in 2004 showed that 65 percent of the people that ACORN helped get on the voter rolls voted on Election Day. Continue Reading