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Article: Some bumps for voter registration; Counties report problems with new system, but Kiffmeyer cites positive examples.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 1, 2004
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Byline: Mark Brunswick; Staff Writer
Minnesota's new voter registration system is getting a failing grade for its performance from many of the state's county election officials less than five weeks before the Nov. 2 election.
The system logs people off, wipes out previously entered data and is so slow that counties already are straining their overtime budgets just to get information entered, the officials complained. And that could lead to some voters being turned away from the polls on Election Day, they said.
"Things that used to take minutes are taking hours. Things that took hours are taking days," Carlton County Auditor-Treasurer Paul Gassert told the Senate ...