https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now
ACORN conducted voter registration drives, as well as working to remove systemic barriers to registration of low and working-class voters. The Republican Party regularly alleged that it committed voter fraud, but few cases have been found or prosecuted. The organization conducted its own audits and cooperated with investigations of employees, referring some cases to law enforcement.
ACORN suffered an extremely damaging nationwide controversy beginning in the fall of 2009 after two conservative activists secretly made and released videos of interactions with ACORN personnel in several offices, showing them encouraging in criminal behavior. Several Obama investigations cleared ACORN, finding its employees had not engaged in the alleged criminal activities and that the organization had appropriately managed its federal funding. In the meantime the organization suffered immediate loss of funding from government agencies with which it had contracts and from private donors.[7][8][9]
The loss of funds had been too damaging and by March 2010, 15 of ACORN's 30 state chapters had already closed[7] and ACORN announced it was closing its remaining state chapters and disbanding.[10] On November 2, 2010 its U.S. offices filed for Chapter 7 liquidation effectively closing the organization.[11]
ACORN trying to reconstitute. http://www.acorn.org/
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