To a large extent these bills are a response to "motor voter" legislation, which has added millions of citizens, particularly minorities, to voter registries.

Each campaign pored over the voter registry, divvying up the population by party, by voting history and by ethnic surname.

Local balloting, scheduled for last April, has been postponed twice because of the lack of a voter registry.

It has updated and modernized the voter registry and voting infrastructure, and increased participation by establishing additional voting centers in underserved areas.

Katherine Harris's office, using a computerized database with known faults, misidentified these citizens as felons, then purged them from voter registries.

The nationality of the voters is listed in the voter registry, which is provided by the registrar's office that maintains Croatia's vital records.

When the registration process completed in early January 2012 ahead of the referendum, there were 4,504,686 voters in the voter registry (the same one used in parliamentary and presidential elections).

In the Nov. 2 parliamentary election the United States spent $2.4 million on projects to set up a voter registry, train election workers and sponsor debates.

Further, with the aid of a Republican-tied database firm, Harris's office used sophisticated computer programs to hunt those felons eligible to vote and ordered them thrown off the voter registries.

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