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Article: State officials protest ban on voter registration at VA facilities?
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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By Mary E. O'Leary Register Topics Editor
WEST HAVEN -- Martin Onieal, 92, a patient at the Veteran Affairs
medical center, registered to vote Monday, courtesy of the state's
chief elections official -- Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz.
"There was nobody here to do this last year," said Onieal, a
World War II veteran of the Italian and North African campaigns,
formerly of Hamden and a resident of the VA center since 2007.
Bysiewicz and state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal Monday
registered Onieal and a handful of other VA patients, and threatened
a lawsuit if they couldn't come back to demonstrate how the new
voting machines work.
Bysiewicz conducted the impromptu registration ...