Attorney: ACORN Never Registered Hundreds Of Florida Voters

A South Florida attorney is suing a voter registration group, saying he has 11 clients who were denied the right to vote and thinks there may be hundreds more. Stuart Rosenfeldt represents 11 people in Miami-Dade and Orange County who learned too late that they were never registered to vote after they signed up with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The group, the leading organizer of Florida's Amendment 5 ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage, conducted voter registration drives across the state. ACORN is under investigation for not turning in all the registration paperwork. Rosenfeldt said he'll sue ACORN for punitive damages, $100,000 per disenfranchised voter. Attorneys are looking for more victims to push for a class action lawsuit. ACORN blames the paperwork problems on a dishonest employee. The group claims to have registered more than one million new voters nationwide, mostly in low and moderate income neighborhoods and minority communities. According to the group's Web site, its efforts were to "ensure that low and moderate income families have a voice in the upcoming election and all future elections." [more]