Pew Study: 1 in 8 Voter Records Flawed
- Election Initiatives
- Source: usatoday.com
- February 13, 2012
02/13/2012 - WASHINGTON – More than 24 million voter-registration records in the United States—about one in eight—are inaccurate, out-of-date or duplicates. Nearly 2.8 million people are registered in two or more states, and perhaps 1.8 million registered voters are dead.
Those estimates, from a report published today by the non-partisan Pew Center on the States, portray a largely paper-based system that is outmoded, expensive and error-prone.
Read the full article at USAToday.com.
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