7,400 voters remain under challenge under "No match, No vote" law

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Florida-s-No-Match-No-Vote-by-ncvoter-081007-634.html

St. Petersburg Times

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"State election officials have notified more than 800 people in the Tampa Bay area and a total of 10,400 statewide who recently signed up to vote that they aren't yet qualified because of discrepancies between their signup forms and state records. The law was passed by the Republican-led 2005 Legislature over Democratic objections. It requires the driver's license number or last four digits of a Social Security number written on new voter registration applications to match numbers in a government database.

Critics, who sued to block the law in federal court shortly after it passed, contend that the system unfairly targets Hispanics because they often use two surnames, which can cause confusion and a mismatch in the state's voter database.

Browning has said the law requires voters to clear up discrepancies in an elections office with election employees to create a paper "audit trail." Voters who haven't done so before Election Day can cast provisional ballots at the polls, but the ballot is only counted if the voter resolves the discrepancy within TWO DAYS.

As of Oct. 3, the Division of Elections had identified 32,847 people whose information did not match official databases. In many cases, the state was able to resolve the discrepancy without contacting them, leaving 10,422 in limbo. And nearly 3,000 of those have been corrected, putting the unresolved figure at about 7,400 as of Oct. 3 "

In the computer. Since it was not at her regular polling place, they had to put in her info. He put her name in a different format than on her voter card, left out the "West" for her street address and mistyped her zip code. As it was originally entered, her vote could have been thrown out according the the No Match, No Vote law.

She was watching like a hawk, but how many would be that careful?