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While the rest of the nation was out voting last Tuesday, ACORN -- the major voter registration organization in cities and among the poor -- was quietly filing for bankruptcy in a Brooklyn, N.Y., courthouse a few blocks from its main office.
But despite the bankruptcy filing, many of the group's critics remain suspicious of the community organizers' intentions