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Report: Hundreds of Democrats Voter Forms Thrown Out In Nevada

HeadlineOct 13, 2004

The Nevada tv station KLAS is reporting workers at a Republican-funded voter registration company charge that hundreds, and perhaps thousands of voter registration forms signed by Democrats were thrown into the trash. The company, Voters Outreach of America, has employed up to 300 part time workers in Nevada collecting new voter registrations across the country. What the company didn’t tell the new voters is that it is funded by the Republican National Committee. The workers allege the company sorted through the new registration forms, appropriately submitted the Republican forms and tossed the Democratic forms. This could possibly leave thousands of Democratic voters who thought they were registered unable to vote in the presidential election. Meanwhile in Florida, the Washington Post reports that African American leaders are complaining that voting officials in Duval County are unfairly rejecting new voter registrations from Democrats. An analysis by the Post found county officials were flagging Democratic registrations at three times the rate as Republicans. And no group has more flagged registrations than African Americans.

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