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Report: U.S. voter data in disarray

NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Thousands of eligible U.S. voters can expect to be turned away from election polls because of flawed database technology, USA Today reported Wednesday.

A survey by the Gannett News Service found as many as 14,000 people in Florida had their voter registration disputed by the state because they didn't match other databases, such as Social Security and motor vehicle agencies.

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States have gone in various directions to create databases five years after the federal government mandated that state officials prevent election fraud, the newspaper said.

Colorado purged nearly 20 percent of its voters from electoral rolls between the 2004 and 2006 elections, while Arkansas deleted 3 percent, Election Assistance Commission data showed.

Lawyer Justin Levitt of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University's School of Law said the problem is broad.

"We know that eligible people have been thrown off the rolls," Levitt told USA Today.

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