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The Associated Press
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Published: Fri, January 18, 2008 - 3:53 pm
Last Updated: Fri, January 18, 2008 - 3:59 pm
ATLANTA (AP) - Lawyers argued today that tens of thousands ofFloridians will be barred from voting in the 2008 national election
if a state voter registration law is allowed to go back into
effect.
In a hearing before a panel of the 11th U-S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in Atlanta, lawyers for the Florida NAACP and
other groups asked that a temporary injunction against the 2005 law
stay in place.
The law requires that information on voter applications match
driver's license or Social Security card databases.
Florida officials -- still haunted by the election recount of
2000 -- say the law is a centerpiece of their efforts to prevent
fraud and restore public confidence in the electoral process.
But the law created a system in which a simple mistake on a
voter registration application can knock would-be voters out of an
election, even if they present a valid driver's license or passport.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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