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Election interference has been going on for years. The reason? Voter purges

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"As ever more voters are delisted, no part of the US is immune from purges – but every eligible American deserves the right to vote.No area of America is immune, as purges have grown against the backdrop of a controversial supreme court decision in 2013 that gutted federal protections for voters. In fact, a new Brennan Center report found that purges could threaten the right to vote for millions in November. We  know from our research that some states and jurisdictions are using bad information to determine who should be removed from the rolls. Purges have increased particularly in a handful of largely southern states which were freed from oversight by the supreme court’s landmark 2013 decision in Shelby County v Holder. "


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