September 22, 2009 2:04PM 

# Correction of the Day 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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> A Sept. 18 Page One article about the community organizing group ACORN incorrectly said that a conservative journalist targeted the organization for hidden-camera videos partly because its voter-registration drives bring Latinos and African Americans to the polls. Although ACORN registers people mostly from those groups, the maker of the videos, James E. O’Keefe, did not specifically mention them.

–[Washington Post, September 22, 2009](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/21/AR2009092103762.html)

[Original article here](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091704805_2.html?sid=ST2009091704852).

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