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Transcript: VOTER REGISTRATION PROBLEMS:NATHANIEL PERSILY
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- Congressional Testimony
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- March 11, 2009
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Congressional Testimony
03-11-2009
Statement of Nathaniel Persily Professor of Law and Political Science Columbia
Law School Committee on Senate Rules and Administration Committee March
11, 2009 The United States has made great strides in the area of voter
registration in recent years, but the 2008 election displays how much further
we must go. Controversies surrounding voter registration appear to have
been the problem in the 2008 election, producing more litigation than any
other single topic. Many of these problems are a product of the progress
made in this area, for example, with the innovation of statewide voter
registration databases that have now been used to create purge or challenge
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