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| The NAACP estimates that 66 percent of those displaced are outside of Louisiana, but a federal judge last month refused to order Louisiana officials to provide out-of-state satellite polling places for displaced voters in the primary. Instead, over 700,000 former city residents will receive information packets about how to vote by absentee ballot. (Worse, the address the city has on file may be unreliable.) In response, local leaders have wondered why Iraqis living in the U.S. were given this right, yet African-Americans are not. |
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