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Making the List: Database Matching and Verification Processes for Voter Registration
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Brennan Center for Justice,
3/24/2006
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Link to Report (PDF)
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Federal law now requires, as of January 1, 2006, that states create and maintain statewide
databases to serve as the central source of voter registration information. Citizens’ ability
to get on the rolls—and thus their ability to vote and have their votes counted—will now
depend on the policies and procedures governing the use of these databases in the voter
registration process. Evidence demonstrates that poor policy and procedure choices could
result in the unwarranted disenfranchisement of millions of eligible citizens attempting to
register to vote. The new statewide databases, and their role in the voter registration
process, are poorly understood, but extremely consequential.
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