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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
Politics
CST Editorial Board

Effective tool cleans up voting rolls in 30 states. Don’t undermine it. | Editorial

Clipboards with voter registration forms sit on a table on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, at the United Center sports complex, a super voting site in Chicago. | Charles Rex Arbogast/AP

You’d think a system that makes the records of who can vote as accurate as possible would be popular with everyone. You would be wrong.

Some people on the far right are attacking a tool named the Election Registration Information Center, which efficiently cleans outdated information from the voting rolls. Leaders in both red and blue states should quash this wrong-headed effort before it gains momentum.

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