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Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 11:50 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 11 November 2008 11:50
From TMCnet:
“The first thing I did was laugh out loud,” said Reince Priebus, chairman of the state Republican Party, which joined Van Hollen’s lawsuit. “It’s pretty amazing that we’ve been fighting this battle for four years and now they decide a week after the election they want to do retroactive (registration) checks. It’s pretty frustrating, but we’ll take it.”
The checks — in which voter registration information is cross-referenced against state driver’s license, death and felon records — are intended to prevent fraud and are required under the federal Help America Vote Act.