{"id":3569,"date":"2008-08-13T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/08\/acorn-registers-65000-new-mexicans-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T00:53:00","slug":"acorn-registers-65000-new-mexicans-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/08\/acorn-registers-65000-new-mexicans-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"ACORN registers 65,000 New Mexicans to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acorn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACORN<\/a> turned in its 65,000th voter-registration application of the year to the <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Bernalillo<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">County<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> clerk on Tuesday. In a news release, the group claimed that shattered all previous records for voter-registration drives in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWorking families are going to be heard in this election,\u201d ACORN member Maria Penado said in the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">ACORN has focused its voter-registration efforts this year on minority voters in Bernalillo, Do\u00f1a Ana, <st1:city st=\"on\">Santa Fe<\/st1:City>, Sandoval and <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Valencia<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> counties. The majority of registrations were in <st1:placename st=\"on\">Bernalillo<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">County<\/st1:PlaceType>, the release states, but about 10,000 were from <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:PlaceName>  <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">ACORN plans to phone, mail and visit the new voters to encourage them to vote.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>In 2004, according to the release, 65 percent of the 35,540 voters that ACORN registered voted in response to a similar voter-mobilization program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The group has made headlines for other reasons in recent months. In June, <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:PlaceName>  <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place> warned that it had received <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/county-warns-of-misleading-registration.html\">complaints about misleading voter-registration activities<\/a> by ACORN employees, a charge ACORN denied. Also in June, 90 completed voter-registration applications were <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/completed-voter-registration-forms.html\">stolen from ACORN\u2019s Las Cruces office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Earlier this month, the state Republican Party and others hammered ACORN for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopnm.com\/index.php?view=article&amp;catid=37%3APress+Releases&amp;id=493%3Akrqe-acorn-hiring-criminals-to-register-voters-in-nm&amp;option=com_content&amp;Itemid=97\" target=\"_blank\">hiring convicted felons<\/a> to register voters. In response, ACORN <a href=\"http:\/\/kob.com\/article\/stories\/S537232.shtml?cat=500\" target=\"_blank\">started performing background checks<\/a> on people it hires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACORN turned in its 65,000th voter-registration application of the year to the Bernalillo County clerk on Tuesday. In a news release, the group claimed that shattered all previous records for voter-registration drives in New Mexico. \u201cWorking families are going to be heard in this election,\u201d ACORN member Maria Penado said in the release. ACORN has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}