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Experts are convinced that some of the U.S. electorate will not be able to cast their ballot because of errors in so-called voter purging. This process is intended to remove from electoral lists the names of those who have died or moved to another constit

No one is protected and anyone is a target.

“The problem is that the ways in which the election officials try to clean the electoral lists happen without safeguards in place to make sure that only the correct people are being removed,” says Myrna Perez from the Brennan Center for Justice, which investigates the issue.

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