An AP story reported that a federal lawsuit filed in Cleveland charges that Ohio’s Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, and Barbara Riley, the Director of the Department of Job and Family Services (DJFS), violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) requiring that voter registration opportunities are available in public assistance offices. Their research has found that low income Ohio citizens were not given assistance in registering to vote, especially in the most populous counties. As well, the lawsuit says that Ken Blackwell and Barbara Riley were advised of the lack of voter registration problem in February, yet nothing was done to resolve it The National Voting Rights Institute, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiffs, based it in part on research supplied by ACORN that claims interviews ACORN conducted outside of public assistance agencies found that few low-income people were offered an opportunity to register to vote.