An activist group was sued in Miami-Dade circuit court this week by a former employee, who has accused top officials of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now of violating a slew of election laws.

Mac Stuart, of Opa-locka, has accused the organization, known as ACORN, of illegally copying voter registration applications and selling them to labor union groups, allowing people to sign petitions who were not registered voters and suppressing Republican voter registration applications.
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Stuart, who was assistant director of voter registration for the group, was fired in early August after being accused of trying to cash a paycheck that wasn't his. In the lawsuit, he claims he was fired only days after voicing his concerns about ACORN practices at a group meeting in late July.

An attorney for ACORN, Faith Guy, said Stuart's former employers didn't engage in any wrongdoing and that it was Stuart engaging in election law violations.

"I think this is absolutely outrageous," Guy said. "My sense is that these are things that he was doing."

--Sun-Sentinel

Wait, so the best defense ACORN can come up with is that ACORN actually did those things, but that they were the fault of somebody they fired? The guy was assistant director of voter registration, if he was doing those things than the organization was doing those things. If Ken Lay had come out and complained about the business practices at Enron it wouldn't have absolved Enron of blame just because Lay was himself engaging in the bad business practices.