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...Florida, where just 537 votes determined the victory for George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election, officials remain especially conscious of an effort to make sure everyone eligible can vote, just not at the expense of potential voter fraud. Those two competing interests are at issue in a federal voter registration lawsuit argued this week, and expected to be decided next week, in Gainesville, which could affect whether tens of thousands of citizens who reside in the state will have their vote count in upcoming elections...
...Florida statute that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2006, which requires election officials to match information provided on voter registration applications - such as name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, and driver's license number - against data in official records before an individual can be registered to vote. The problem is that even a simple error such as a typo can keep a legitimate voter off the registration rolls. Compounding that issue is the state's large number of citizens with Haitian or Hispanic names that are either hyphenated or use multiple surnames. Opponents of the bill...
...Last year, a federal court in Washington State threw out a "no match, no vote" law. Since then several states, including California, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas, have voluntarily dropped similar policies. The current case is one of many controversial voter identification lawsuits being heard in courts around the country. The most notable, concerning an Indiana law, is slated to be heard by the Supreme Court early next year...
...Attorneys for the state of Florida, in court documents, referred to the law as a "common-sense anti-fraud measure" and pointed out that the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 requires everyone who signs up to vote and has a driver's license to provide that number on the application. All other applicants should provide the last four digits of their Social Security number (provided they have...
...some 1.5 million voters have been registered in Florida. While conceding that 14,000 other applicants have yet to get on the voter rolls, Hearn maintains that her main concern pertains to the potential for fraud with absentee ballots. "Our concerns lie not in the in-person voting but in the absentee voting where a person doesn't have to go to the polls," Hearn says. "Once they get registered they can vote absentee. That's extremely difficult to detect...