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Voting rights center says voters may be prevented from casting ballots
By James Rosen
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Leaders of a voting-rights center that successfully sued Florida, Washington, Ohio and other states over their election laws said Wednesday that tens of thousands of eligible voters will be prevented from casting ballots in November.
Michael Waldman, executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School, said federal and state voting changes since the disputed 2000 presidential election have produced new threats to eligible voters.
Several states have overreacted to the 2002 Help America Vote Act, passed by Congress to prevent a repeat of the 2000 stalemate, by passing draconian laws and imposing rigid regulations on voter registration, Waldman said.
"Most of the significant voter suppression in this country happens not on Election Day, but before Election Day," he said.
Waldman cited serious problems in a dozen states:
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