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Despite all of the activities that have occurred over the last two years to promote the cause of election reform, the Congress still has not acted. Meanwhile, the states have done little to improve their systems and Republicans are stalling passage of federal legislation because of their desire to include an ill-advised "anti-fraud" provision.

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