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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Tomasky

Here's something to think about

Here's an other-than-comforting piece of reading, a transcript via Kos of an Air America Radio interview of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has become an expert on voter-suppressions issues:

One of these requirements under HAVA is called "the perfect match"....For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr., I'd be removed from the rolls. If your initial is different, if you leave an initial out, if you leave a "Jr." out, if you leave a hyphen out in your name. And what they've done is a study in New York that said 80% of the errors are errors by state clerks taking down this information. And particularly [in] immigrant communities, [where] people tend to vote Democratic...

They do think of everything.

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