Protect Colorado’s Future, a union-backed coalition organized to defeat Amendments 47, 49 and 54, received some bad news last week when one of its prominent endorsers was accused of voter fraud and is now being investigated by the FBI.
The source of the FBI inestigation, liberal activist group ACORN, was allegedly caught submitting false voter registration forms, including some signed by fictitious characters and the deceased. A Better Colorado, the group backing Amendment 47, a right-to-work measure, has called on PCF to repudiate the endorsement.
"To accept and tout an endorsement from an organization engaged in illegal voter registrations is an embarrassment to the political process in Colorado," said Kelley Harp, spokesman for A Better Colorado in a release. "This is a group being investigated by the FBI for signing up fraudulent and fictitious voters. We don't need this kind of politics in Colorado."
While PCF previously boasted on its Web site of ACORN's endorsement, the group responded to news of the FBI investigation by subtly changing its reference to the nod from "ACORN to "Colorado ACORN."
According to the Wall Street Journal, Colorado is one of many states where ACORN’s activities are being investigated after a 2005 incident involving two Colorado ACORN workers who were found to have submitted false registrations.