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SoS pressing statewide electronic voter registration system: massive effort underway to clean up voter rolls.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-OCT-04 		Format: Online - approximately 974 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: SoS pressing statewide electronic voter registration system: massive effort underway to clean up voter rolls.(Save Our Souls )

Article Excerpt
As the country moves toward the presidential election in November, many questions remain regarding the accuracy of the nation's election process. Here in Mississippi, some counties remain on old punch card-type ballots, and others are using the outdated lever machines. There are also continuing concerns about accurate voter registration records.

While it won't happen soon enough to affect this election, Mississippi Secretary of State Eric Clark says a massive effort is underway to clean up the voter rolls to decrease election fraud.

"We have reports of people being registered to vote in three counties," Clark said. "There are people on the rolls who are in jail for crimes that have resulted in the loss of the right to vote. These are people on the rolls who need to be removed."

It is the responsibility of the five election commissioners in each county to keep the...

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