UNHAPPY WITH GROUP'S PROGRESS, HEAD OF KING INSTITUTE QUITS.(Local)

Byline: Tom Precious Capitol bureau

The acting chairwoman of the Martin Luther King Jr. Institute for Nonviolence has resigned, leaving yet another void in the leadership of the embattled state-funded group.

Carol Lister, a Republican appointed to her board post by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, declined to specify what made her quit the institute, which has been under investigation for much of the past year for a host of alleged improprieties.

"I'm just not happy with the way some things are going," she said. "I just have had enough."

Lister, who works full-time with the Anti- Defamation League in New York City, has over the past year been cut out …