Not all of the data was an exact match, however.
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The results, however, established a close, though not exact, match.
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He vigorously defended Georgia's "exact match" system of voter verification.
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In Georgia, exact match was state policy for several years.
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Other states have tried to introduce similar exact-match information requirements.
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Georgia operates under an "exact match" law that flags such issues.
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From the shirt itself to the suspenders, it's an exact match.
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The lawsuit alleged that the "exact match" law disproportionately affected black voters.
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Voting rights activists argue that the "exact match" law discriminates against minority voters.
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Proponents of exact match insist that it protects the integrity of Georgia's elections.
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That's almost an exact match with his overall trade numbers: 3% disapprove, 5853% approve.
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Republicans say the aim of the "exact match" law is to prevent voter fraud.
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Thanks to Kemp's enforcement of the stringent "exact match" law, which was passed in 2017 and requires an exact match between voter rolls and government-issued ID, there are 53,29 pending voter registration applications (the majority of them belonging to people of color).
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The exact-match law took center stage last month, when The Associated Press obtained documents from Mr. Kemp's office in a public records request and found 1893,000 voter registrations were stuck in this "pending" status for failing to meet the exact-match standards.
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The details: Kemp's office uses the "exact match" voter verification system to verify voter applications.
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The exact-match controversy is not the only perceived threat to voting rights in Georgia.
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And on Friday, a judge ruled against the "exact match" policy that Kemp had implemented.
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Voting rights advocates have claimed Kemp's "exact match" law discriminates against black and minority voters.
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In terms of color, the blush was less of an exact match to its original.
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Mr. Oren's ordeal was the result of what is known as Georgia's "exact match" law.
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The unique number on her new pet's chip was an exact match for Chole's microchip number.
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Businesses can now target search ads against exact match keywords, or phrases and broader match targeting.
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This so-called 'exact match' law was passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Deal.
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He faced multiple lawsuits over the states "exact match" voter registration law leading up to Tuesday.
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The Georgia Democrat called on Kemp's office to cease using the "exact match" law going forward.
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And when there were no appropriate words for a tale, when English provided no exact match?
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Kemp's office agreed to settle the suit; as part of the agreement, exact match was retired.
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Civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit calling for an end of the "exact match" system.
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On his chest was a burn that appeared to be an exact match of the gun's barrel.
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Because it is state actors that passed voter ID. It is state actors that passed exact match.
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There may not be an exact match but most types of data can be transferred over successfully.
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The exact-match policy could be a significant blow to Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor.
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Supporters of the purges say their intent, much like the "exact match" law, is to prevent fraud.
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He implemented a version of the exact match system shortly after becoming secretary of state in 2010.
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With that requirement gone, Georgia quickly moved to enact stricter voting laws, like the aforementioned exact match policy.
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The proposal Secretary Wilson laid out would increase that structure by almost an exact match of 24 percent.
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At the same time, policies like the state's "exact match" policy aren't necessarily suppressive in and of themselves.
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Results defaulted to an approximate match of what the user was looking for, instead of the exact match.
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DNA testing on the milk container proved to be an exact match for the suspect's DNA, the affidavit said.
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A few months later, the Georgia General Assembly passed a law reinstating "exact match," which flagged roughly 53,000 voters.
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Exact-match items sell out worldwide, and we also often see customers purchasing similar pieces at lower price points.
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It's not quite an exact match, but it's very close: $2000 billion for premiums versus $2141 billion in new taxes.
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According to the AP, Kemp's office is holding the applications because they were flagged in the state's "exact match" process.
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If the file isn't an exact match with one of them, then it will upload those to the cloud directly.
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He has cited concerns with the "exact match" process that compares registration information to Social Security and state driver records.
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Last Thursday, a coalition of civil rights groups filed a lawsuit calling for the exact match program to be ended.
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He has cited concerns with Georgia's "exact match" process that compares registration information to Social Security and state driver records.
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Anderson describes Georgia's Exact Match system and the Interstate Crosscheck as modern incarnations of old efforts to restrict the vote.
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Days after that, a coalition of civil rights groups filed a lawsuit calling for the end of the exact match program.
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Last month, Kemp's office delayed 53,000 votes — 70 percent of them black voters — for failing to meet an "exact match" qualification.
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As Mother Jones reports, one tactic is a law requiring an exact match between registration and other information in government databases.
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The applications were all flagged by Georgia's "exact match" voter verification process, which was implemented by the state legislature last year.
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On October 12, a coalition of civil rights groups filed a lawsuit calling for the end of the exact match program.
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It's not an exact match with Google's fabric aesthetic, but it will make the system look more at home on most shelves.
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In September, voting rights advocates sued the state of Georgia for imposing an "exact match" policy for processing of voter registration forms.
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To give an exact match, chemical weapons experts said Britain would have to compare it to a sample of Russian-made Novichok.
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Or, in the case when it can't make an exact match, the app will show you a percentage of the closest match.
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Kemp also enacted an "exact match" policy, which required information on voter-registration applications to precisely match information on other official records.
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HireVue's AI-driven platform can help companies scan candidates' skills and evaluate their potential, even without an exact match in prior experience.
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However, they subsequently realized the man's name was similar to someone facing an arrest warrant, but not an exact match, Bild reported.
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When investigators compared his DNA to the DNA from the crime scene, it appeared to be an exact match, Chief Walker said.
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What complicates Casalotti's situation is her mixed-race background, which makes it a lot more difficult for her to find an exact match.
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Following our inquiry, Google disabled every keyword in this ad campaign save one — an exact match for "blacks destroy everything," is still eligible.
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These practices range from purges of the voter rolls and stringent rules requiring signatures on mail-in ballots, to exact-match official records.
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Google disabled the keyword searches used in the campaign after BuzzFeed's inquiry, except an exact match for "blacks destroy everything", the report said.
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Although "exact match" lacks the explicit racial animus of Jim Crow, its execution nonetheless betrayed its true purpose to disenfranchise voters of color.
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In Georgia, a 2017 "exact match law" allowed authorities to throw out voter registration forms whose information did not "exactly match" existing records.
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Google disabled the keyword searches used in the campaign after BuzzFeed's inquiry, except an exact match for "blacks destroy everything," the report said.
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"Previously, searching by keyword only showed you comments with an exact match (so searching 'subs' would only find 'subs')," the blog post reads.
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"Exact match" voter verification was used by Kemp from 2013 to 2016, then halted, briefly, as part of the settlement of a lawsuit.
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Kemp's claims that exact match is a neutral election protection mechanism ring especially hollow given his long and fraught history using this device.
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When baked, the Deep Fried Twinkies do come out a bit crispy, but aren't an exact match for the ones at fairs or restaurants.
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Shortly after that settlement, Georgia passed a law that codified parts of the later version of the exact match system and reinstated a deadline.
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If investigators are unable to find an exact match there, a site such as GEDmatch is better for tracking down suspects through their relatives.
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The most prominent is a Democratic suit that seeks to invalidate Florida's current rules requiring an exact match of the signature in the ballot.
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Because an OCRed article is seldom an exact match for its full text counterpart, we could not align articles by simply testing for string equality.
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And in Georgia, a high-profile fight over the state's "exact match" registration verification process has put the gubernatorial race there in the national spotlight.
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Before Kemp became secretary of state in 2010, Georgia was twice blocked by the Justice Department from implementing a version of the exact-match policy.
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Georgia's "exact match" policy, for instance, requires your voter application to exactly mirror Social Security Administration data or the state's Department of Driver Services information.
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Prior to 2012, search engine algorithms gave weight in their rankings to sites that included keywords in their domain, otherwise known as exact-match domains.
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A state law passed in 2017 at Mr. Kemp's urging requires an "exact match" between a voter's registration form and his or her government documents.
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Kemp's office used the system previously, but paused following a lawsuit, at which point the state legislature passed a law restoring the "exact match" system.
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If you look at the outfits for example, you'll see that the costumes on The Crown are an almost-exact match to their real-life counterparts.
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For example, his office uses an "exact match" process that stops voter registrations if there are any discrepancies, down to dropped hyphens, with other government records.
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Previously, Kemp's office used an older version of the exact match process, and automatically canceled registrations for those who failed to correct their information within 40 days.
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A confusing and controversial "exact match" procedure, which mandates a voter registration application must match exactly what's on record with the DMV or the Social Security Administration.
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Soon after Mr Kemp's office agreed to that settlement, Georgia passed a law reinstating the "exact match" requirement, but giving voters 26 months to correct any discrepancies.
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In a tweet on Wednesday, Kemp claimed that the voter registration group submitted "sloppy forms," leading those applicants' status to be pending under the "exact match" law.
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Kemp's office uses a controversial method called "exact match," under which voters' names can be purged from the rolls for something as trivial as a missing hyphen.
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And just days ago, a federal judge ruled that the state needed to adjust elements of its so-called "exact match" voting requirement, calling them needlessly burdensome.
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Additionally, based on past experiences with exact match, they say temporary poll workers sometimes do not know how to fix errors or what pending status actually means.
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So while the art currently on display may not be an exact match for the art Claudia and Jamie saw, there is acres more of it now.
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Voting restrictions — exact-match voter identification laws in Georgia, and a street address requirement to register in North Dakota — work with the electoral college to reinforce systemic authoritarianism.
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Google disabled most of them after BuzzFeed News provided the company with details about the campaign, but an exact match for "black people destroy everything" is still eligible.
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In regular crime scene investigations, detectives look for an exact match between a crime scene sample and DNA profiles stored in law enforcement databases to identify a suspect.
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This week, Fabio Malaver, 53, a household butler, clutched a Mulberry suit bag and scoured the wall displays for an exact match to replace a long-lost button.
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There was also the state's "exact match" identity verification process, which was used between 2013 and 2016 to deny 34,874 registration applications who were disproportionately voters of color.
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The Associated Press reported this week that Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is blocking 53,000 voter registration applications under what his office calls an "exact match" policy.
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As Rolling Stone pointed out, Kemp suspended more than 107,000 voter applications (70 percent of them filed by black people) because they violated a state "exact match" standard.
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As Rolling Stone pointed out, Kemp suspended more than 53,000 voter applications (70 percent of them filed by black people) because they violated a state "exact match" standard.
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If you've ever run a race with a GPS watch, you know that the distance on your watch is rarely an exact match for the advertised course distance.
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Abrams was referring to two recent rulings from judges, one that prevents Kemp from tossing out certain absentee ballots and another that eases the state's "exact match" laws.
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The employees' ticket, which was purchased Saturday and included numbers 2, 11, 47, 62, 63 and a Powerball of 17, was an exact match for Wednesday's $528 million prize.
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A federal judge issued a ruling Friday removing barriers to voters flagged as noncitizens by Georgia's "exact match" rules, easing their ability to vote in next week's midterm election.
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Georgia came under scrutiny this election cycle as thousands of voter registration applications were placed on hold because voters were flagged as noncitizens under the state's "exact match" law.
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But Kemp has invoked the so-called exact-match law to suspend fifty-three thousand voter-registration applications, for infractions as minor as a hyphen missing from a surname.
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The Justice Department blocked the first version of the exact-match policy, in 503, for discriminating against black, Asian and Latino voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
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Just a year later, however, the GOP-controlled state legislature passed its own version of exact match, despite the recent lawsuit and despite repeated warnings from civil rights groups.
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Sometimes, the molecule that guides CRISPR's scissors to the right place to cut a genome also accidentally targets sequences of genetic code that are similar, but not an exact match.
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The list — created by the voter verification method called "exact match," which requires voter applications be perfectly matched with information on file — has a disproportionately high number of black voters.
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But with just weeks left before Georgia's election for governor—in which Mr Kemp is not just overseer, but also the Republican nominee—"exact match" is back in the news.
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Even closer to Election Day, a federal court ruled that more than 3,000 voters were improperly categorized "noncitizens" by the same "exact match" process, which could have suppressed the vote.
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Abrams ramped up the allegations in light of a news report that found 6900,2628 voter registration applications are on hold because they failed to meet the state's "exact match" law.
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In her order she said ballots with signatures that aren't an exact match should be held by election officials and voters should be given the opportunity to resolve the discrepancy.
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Her character seems at least nominally inspired by the jilted Helena of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," who pursues her love (the ex) through enchanted woods, but there's no exact match.
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While it obviously will not be an exact match for the current coronavirus outbreak, it underlines the importance of hand-washing, one of the main pieces of public-health advice.
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In Georgia, the "exact match" law, which was passed by the state's Republican-led Legislature in 2017, mandates that personal information on a voter registration form exactly match government databases.
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Under exact match, the information listed on voter application must exactly match information as it is listed either in a state driver's license database or the federal Social Security database.
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Shortly after that settlement, Georgia passed a law that codified a new, similar version of the exact match system and reinstated a deadline, rejecting uncorrected registrations after a 20163-month period.
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Years before the current controversy, Kemp's office used an older version of the exact match process, and automatically canceled registrations for those who failed to correct their information within 40 days.
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Trump generally sees eye to eye with Republicans in Congress in calling for major tax cuts, including those for the wealthy, although details of their plans are not an exact match.
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Kemp's antics have fueled charges of voter suppression, especially after 53,000 voter registration applications, mostly from black voters, were put on hold, again over the state's exact match rules for names.
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Further fueling the controversy, 53,000 voter registration applications are on hold, according to an Associated Press report, under the state's "exact match" law which demands registrations precisely match other government documents.
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And according to an Associated Press report, 53,000 voter registrations, 70 percent of which are from black applicants, were being held by Kemp's office for violating a controversial "exact match" process.
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So, all I had to do was come up with another 10-letter word that was fun and an exact match to the others and rewrite the whole puzzle from scratch!
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For some apartments, like Seaburn's pink paradise (which I would move into immediately), the design is an exact match to the apartment UK contestant Brooke lived in during the second season.
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They've also challenged the delay of voter registrations for 53,000 more people, most of them black, under an "exact match" law requiring applications to mirror driver's license or Social Security data information.
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The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that more than 22019,000 voter registration applications — 70 percent of them from black voters — are on hold after failing to meet the state's "exact match" law.
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In La Madeleine, a church complex in the city of Orleans, a seed found in almost a thousand year-old cesspit turned to be an exact match for modern-day savagnin blanc.
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The image of a steely champion dissolved in emotion was perhaps the exact match for a time that took us, cruelly and inexorably, from the first black president to… well, you remember.
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It said 70 percent of the voters whose registrations were pending over the "exact match" policy before the election were black, although African-Americans account for about one-third of the population.
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The internal components aren't an exact match for the Play:1 or Sonos One, but those are the speakers that Sonos modeled the lamp's audio performance after, and you can definitely hear it.
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It's hard to get an exact match for the grade of coal Carmichael will produce, but the closest could be Indonesian 5,000 kilocalorie per kilogram coal, which is of a similar energy content.
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Stone, 28, said she had visited the Chinese Theater when she moved to Hollywood at age 15, and found that her hands were "an exact match" for "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" actress Jane Russell.
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Kemp has said he is enforcing a law passed by the state legislature that requires an individual's name on their identification to be an exact match with the name on the voter rolls.
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Before and after the 2018 election, lawsuits challenging parts of Georgia's election system, like the exact match registration rule and the rejection of some absentee ballots, ended in victories for civil rights groups.
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The "exact match" policy in Georgia, which a federal court deemed unlawful in November because it requires perfect data entry to secure a timely registration, serves as one example of such a policy.
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Georgia's secretary of state held 20183,000 voter registrations hostage under exact match last year, 70 percent of which came from black voters, who made up only around 30 percent of Georgia's eligible voters.
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The "exact match" system was used by Kemp's office from 2013 to 2016, during which nearly 35,000 applications were rejected, with minorities disproportionately affected, according to a lawsuit that was settled in 2017.
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In its review of the exact match system, the suit mentions Carlos del Rio, the chair of the Department of Global Health Studies at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
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Jane Burton, a former wildlife photographer, convinced her son that he should photograph animals with similar markings when she noticed that a friend's gray dwarf rabbit was an exact match to her Birman kitten.
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Google only releases stock Android ROMs for its official Nexus devices, so you can't get an exact match—but rooting will allow you to get rid of all the bloatware apps you don't want.
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Abrams has also accused Kemp of voter suppression in the wake of a news report that said 53,85033 voter registration applications are on hold because they failed to meet the state's "exact match" law.
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The statute says a voter's registration is considered pending if the information on their application isn't an exact match to the info on the state's Department of Driver Services or the Social Security Administration.
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Civil rights groups sued Kemp in October over 50,000 voting registration applications placed on hold due to Georgia's "exact-match" law, requiring that personal information on voter applications match what is on state databases.
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On Thursday, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit against Kemp on behalf of a coalition of Georgia civil rights groups seeking an immediate end to the "exact match" program.
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Before and after the 2018 election, other suits challenging parts of Georgia's election system, like the "exact match" registration rule and the rejection of some absentee ballots, ended in victories for civil rights groups.
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Georgia is among several states with an "exact match" law requiring personal information on voter applications - including names, driver's license numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers - to match state databases.
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Dewey is now claiming that all the evidence found in his room was planted, and Helena questions if there's any possibility there could be another gun like Dewey's that is an exact match the bullets.
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In the meantime, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, in conjunction with other civil rights groups, sued Kemp's office for rejecting absentee ballots on the grounds of exact match requirements, and on Oct.
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A close viewing of one image from the book suggests solid connections to the city: There's a towering building capped by two spires, the outline of which is an exact match for Milwaukee City Hall.
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Common political forces While the political stalemates in London and Washington are not an exact match, some common factors combined to lay siege to what have long been two of the world's most resilient democracies.
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A coalition of civil rights groups moved to sue Kemp earlier this October to block enforcement of an "exact match" requirement that they said endangered more than 50,000 voters, most of whom are African Americans.
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The Associated Press reported earlier this month that more than 53,000 voter registration applications were on hold after failing to meet the "exact match" law, and that 70 percent of them were from black voters.
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Even if an exact match is not possible for a particular piece of DNA (not all species are in the database), the system can make an educated guess about the genus or family it came from.
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In practice, it sort of works—my "illustration" of a "landscape" gave me back the following results: The pictures aren't an exact match, but Splash did manage to get fairly close to the color and composition.
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According to Westenhofer, Elwynn forest's layout is an exact match, Red Ridge and West Fall are both where they are in the pre-existing fictional universe and the mountains between Stormwind and Iron Forge are correct.
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In Georgia, some 53,000 voter registration applications — the vast majority of which were submitted by black residents — are considered pending by the secretary of state's office because they ran afoul of the state's "exact match" law.
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The clothes he was wearing when he escaped — a "light colored hat, brown coat, red sweater, blue overalls over black trousers" — were an exact match for the clothes found on "Clark County John Doe," he said.
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Princess Kate, 36, stepped out in London on Tuesday wearing blue from head-to-toe, including a Séraphine maternity dress, Sportmax coat, patterned scarf and earrings that were a near exact match of her sapphire engagement ring.
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Kemp's role overseeing elections in the state has come under scrutiny, especially after an October news report said 53,000 voter registration applications, most of them from African-Americans, were on hold because of the "exact match" law.
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Four days before the election, U.S. District Court Judge Eleanor Ross ruled that the exact-match policy presented a "severe burden" for voters, and allowed three thousand new citizens whose registrations had been held up to vote.
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Mr. Kemp, who has called accusations that he encouraged voter suppression a "farce," oversaw legal purges of voter rolls and embraced a rigorous "exact match" approach to processing voter registrations, among other steps that have drawn criticism.
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On Friday, a federal judge called Mr. Oren's experience "beyond the merely inconvenient" and forced the state to smooth out administrative hurdles to eligible voters who had been erroneously flagged as noncitizens by the exact-match system.
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In 2016, a group of civil rights organizations sued Kemp after it was revealed that exact match had resulted in the rejection of nearly 35,000 voter registrations -- most of them from minority applicants -- between 2013 and 2015.
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Ohio and Florida are the only other states to implement exact match provisions since 20163, according to the non-partisan Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, which advocates for voting rights and fair elections.
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In the weeks before and after the 2018 election, lawsuits challenging parts of Georgia's election system, like the exact match registration rule and the rejection of some absentee ballots, did end in victories for civil rights groups.
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Kemp has said he is merely doing his job by enforcing a law passed by the state legislature that requires an individual's name on their identification to be an exact match with the name on the voter rolls.
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To do this in others, exact match donors would have to be found in the tiny proportion of people — most of them of northern European descent — who have the CCR5 mutation that makes them resistant to the virus.
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On one hand, the legislature's revival of exact match -- and Kemp's zealous use of it to his own benefit -- represent a shocking exercise of nakedly partisan power, one that flies in the face of both laws and norms.
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Subtle differences indicate that the mold found by the Swedish farmer in 1887 isn&apost an exact match with the newfound pin, but the discovery of both indicates that the Vikings produced their fair share of molds and pins .
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Abrams has called on Kemp to step down after The Associated Press reported that more than 53,000 voter registration applications — 70 percent of them from black voters — are on hold after failing to meet the state's "exact match" law.
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Abrams has called on Kemp to step down after The Associated Press reported that more than 2628,28503 voter registration applications — 22019 percent of them from black voters — are on hold after failing to meet the state's "exact match" law.
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"It's about thousands of people who were denied the right to vote," she said, alluding to allegations during the campaign that Kemp, who was then Georgia secretary of state, suppressed votes through policies like the state's "exact match" rule.
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"With respect to Tuesday's election, we deem this a total victory in our fight against Secretary of State Brian Kemp's exact-match scheme," said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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On Friday, a federal judge ruled that the Georgia secretary of state and Ms. Abrams' Republican opponent, Brian Kemp, must stop using an "exact match" law that flags slight discrepancies on registration rolls that could prevent people from voting.
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In this election alone, Mr. Kemp had trapped 53,000 voter registration cards using exact match, and 70 percent of the applicants kicked into electoral purgatory were African-American, including one of my colleagues, a faculty member at Emory University.
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In part, this is because of an "exact match" voter verification program that Georgia's Republican-controlled government enacted last year, which flags registrations that have even minor discrepancies with official records, like a dropped hyphen in a last name.
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Abrams has called on Kemp to step down after The Associated Press reported that more than 53,000 voter registration applications — 85033 percent of them from black voters — are on hold after failing to meet the state's "exact match" law.
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The doll may have been quasi-anonymously forged in the opaque fires of e-commerce hell, because it is a nearly exact match to an out-of-stock toy sold on Amazon under the brand name Dolls to Play.
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And just weeks from Election Day, the Associated Press reported that 53,000 voter registrations — 70 percent of them from black applicants — had been held up for failing an "exact match" process, which requires registration information to perfectly match state driver records.
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The OnePlus 3 isn't an exact match for a Galaxy S7 in terms of hardware features — it doesn't have any water resistance or wireless charging — but it costs so much less than an S7 that I'm inclined to forgive those omissions.
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Then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp took the lead on aggressive voting-reduction efforts, purging the voting rolls of over 1 million primarily minority voters and instituting an "exact match" requirement that removed voters for any clerical errors or misspellings.
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The nominee has waged a years-long battle against voting rights groups and minority voter registration efforts, using an "exact match" program to approve voter IDs, something that has aggravated minority Georgians and thrust the race into the national spotlight.
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And few have been dirtier than Kemp, who is also Georgia's Secretary of State and has been putting tens of thousands of voters' registrations in the state on hold, most of them African-American, under the state's "exact match" law.
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Clarke's organization and the Campaign Legal Center filed a separate lawsuit earlier this month that challenges the constitutionality of Georgia's "exact match" law, which stipulates that voters' registration applications must match information on their state ID's or Social Security records.
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Just last week, a federal judge overturned the state's "exact match" rule, which required that the identifying information on a person's voter registration form had to exactly match the information in the state's Department of Driver Services and Social Security Administration.
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More than 82 percent of the roughly 56,000 voter registrants given "pending" voter status in Georgia between August 2013 and February 2018 were there because they had fallen foul of the exact match policy, according to state data reviewed by Reuters.
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Kemp's office also put 53,000 voter registrations on hold, nearly 70 percent of which are for black voters, by using an error-prone "exact match" system, which stops voter registrations if there are any discrepancies, down to dropped hyphens, with other government records.
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And so if people vote early we will know there are long lines in Cobb County, we'll know there are absentee ballots being rejected in Gwinnett, we will know there are people who are being told they can't vote because of 'exact match.
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It claimed that officials "grossly mismanaged" the election and deprived black and minority voters of fair participation by failing to send out absentee ballots on time, purging voter rolls and taking extreme measures to block voter registrations through the "exact match" policy.
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But the Obama administration may have seen the warning signs in the Roberts Court's ruling in Northwest Austin: The Justice Department abandoned its legal fight against the exact-match policy, approving a modified version of the program shortly after Kemp entered office.
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Kemp attracted notable scrutiny after an October news report said 85033,000 voter registration applications, most of them from African-Americans, were on hold because of the state's "exact match" law, which requires information on applications to exactly match information on other government documents.
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We ask for proper and uniform training of poll workers, timely processing of absentee ballots, functioning and secure voting machines, accurate voter registration databases, an end to policies like "exact match" and "use it or lose it," and many more necessary remedies.
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In addition to voter ID laws, Georgia had implemented a program called "exact match" that a judge had previously ruled was racially discriminatory but was, nonetheless, reborn with all of its defects by the Georgia legislature and in full operation in 2018.
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Still, when it comes to the ongoing concerns over the registrations stalled by "exact match," Andra Gillespie, an associate professor of political science at Emory University, suggested voters take Kemp at his word and arrive at the polls with a flexible strategy.
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Voting rights groups say based on their experience of previous elections, the practice of exact match sows confusion, suppressing turnout, and that overstretched county workers are more likely to add a voter to a pending list to save time and meet deadlines.
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On October 1073, the Associated Press reported that 53,000 voter registrations, 70 percent of them from black applicants, were being held by Kemp's office for failing to clear an "exact match" process that compares registration information to Social Security and state driver records.
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On October 9, the Associated Press reported that 53,43 voter registrations, 70 percent of them from black applicants, were being held by Kemp's office for failing to clear an "exact match" process that compares registration information to Social Security and state driver records.
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Kemp faced intensified accusations of voter suppression — particularly among Georgia's black voters — after 53,000 voter registrations (the majority from people of color) were put on hold for failing to clear the state's "exact match" process comparing a voter's registration information to state records.
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On October 20133, the Associated Press reported that 53,000 voter registrations, 70 percent of them from black applicants, were being held by Kemp's office for failing to clear an "exact match" process that compares registration information to Social Security and state driver records.
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The month before the election, the Associated Press reported that 53,000 voter registrations, 70 percent of them from black applicants, were being held by Kemp's office for failing to clear an "exact match" process that compares registration information to Social Security and state driver records.
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Purging voters from the rolls: Under Kemp, Georgia eliminated 1.5 million people from voter rolls between 2012 to 2016 -- nearly 503 percent of the total -- in part through an "exact match" standard that deleted people if so much as a comma was out of place.
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He also placed about 53,000 voter registration applications on hold because they ran afoul of an "exact match" law that required information on voter registration forms to precisely match information on file with the state's Department of Driver Services and the Social Security Administration.
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In addition to the exact match lawsuit, Kemp and election officials in Gwinnett County are facing a pair of federal lawsuits from civil rights groups who say the county is rejecting a high number of absentee ballots from African-American and Asian-American voters.
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And on Friday, a federal court ruled that more than 3,000 voters incorrectly flagged as "noncitizens" by the exact match process must be allowed to vote in the upcoming election because the state failed to update their citizenship status after they were made US citizens.
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Georgia is one of several states that uses an "exact match" voter verification system to confirm the identity of voters, requiring the name and spelling someone uses to register to vote to match the information on their driver's license and/or Social Security card.
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On October 12, a coalition of civil rights groups — including the Georgia NAACP, the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Atlanta — filed a lawsuit calling for an end to the exact match program, noting that it has disproportionately affected voters of color.
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A spokeswoman from Kemp's office told The Hill on Wednesday that the holds were caused by the state's "exact match" law, a policy that requires an applicant's information to match exactly what is listed by the state's Department of Driver Services or the Social Security Administration.
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Those charges escalated early last month after an Associated Press analysis of public records data found that Kemp's office had put on hold more than 53,000 voter registrations -- nearly 70% of them belonging to African Americans -- because they failed to clear the state's controversial "exact match" standard.
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And on November 2, a federal court ruled that more than 3,000 voters incorrectly flagged as "noncitizens" by the exact match process must be allowed to vote in the upcoming election because the state failed to update their citizenship status after they were made US citizens.
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The state officials behind exact match were well aware, per an earlier lawsuit, that when only a missing hyphen or a typo in a government database can form the basis to withhold the right to vote, people of color will bear the brunt of such trivial mistakes.
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His case was a key element of a federal lawsuit that challenges a Georgia law known as "exact match," on the grounds that the law has threatened the voting rights of more than 224,000 voters whose registration forms did not precisely match personal information on government databases.
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Mr. Kemp's office uses a controversial method called "exact match" to verify voter applications, which in some cases means individuals can be purged from voting rolls if their submitted information has even trivial differences from their government identification, such as an entry error or a dropped hyphen.
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Abrams called for Kemp to step down as secretary of state following a report that said Georgia put a hold on more than 53,000 voter registration applications -- nearly seven-in-10 of them belonging to African Americans -- because they failed to clear the state's "exact match" standard.
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Those "pending" registrations became a flashpoint last week when an Associated Press report revealed that 53,000 registrations, nearly 70% of them belonging to African Americans, had been held up under "exact match," a law championed by the office of Secretary of State Brian Kemp -- Abrams' Republican opponent.
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The governor's race in Georgia is one of the most contentious and closely watched in the US because voters rights groups have sued Kemp for withholding 53,000 voter registration applications, most of which were for black voters, because they did not pass the state's "exact match" voter ID law.
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Most of those 260,217 registrations were put on hold, the AP reported, because they did not pass Georgia's "exact match" voter identification law, which requires that voter applications exactly match up to names on file with the state agency that issues driver's licenses or the Social Security Administration's records.
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On Friday, a court found that Kemp's office also acted wrongly when it threw out registrations for more than 50,000 voters, primarily African Americans, under an "exact match" law that won't accept a voter if the name on their registration doesn't perfectly match their name in other government databases.
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In the run up to the election, Kemp deployed brazen tactics of voter suppression, purging hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls and putting the registration of thousands of mostly Black voters on hold using a confusing "exact match" policy, which was eventually struck down in court.
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Those calls intensified after an October report from the Associated Press found that 53,000 voter registrations, 70 percent of them from black applicants, were being held by Kemp's office for failing to clear an "exact match" process that compares registration information to Social Security and state driver records.
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Disenfranchising voters: Between 2013 and 2015, the state cited its "exact match" protocol and canceled nearly 35,000 voter registration applications (76 percent were from applicants who identified as African-American, Latino or Asian-American), according to a lawsuit against Kemp filed by a coalition of civil rights groups.
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Civil rights advocates have raised questions during the campaign over Kemp's voter management as head of the state's election system, including a dispute over the state's "exact match law" that led to 53,000 voter registration applications, a majority of which came from black voters, being placed on hold.
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Mr. Kemp was a key proponent of the 2017 state law that requires an "exact match" between a voter's registration form and his or her government documents, meaning a missing hyphen, or a difference between a married and a maiden name, can cause a registration to be suspended.
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No, people in Georgia whose names aren't exact matches between voter rolls and other forms of identification will not be blocked from voting in this election — thanks to a federal judge who ruled on Friday that the state's "exact match" rules for registration won't apply for this election.
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With Ms. Loeffler and Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state, in attendance, Dr. Warnock ripped politicians who "offer platitudes" to the King name while "supporting voter suppression and voter purging and unnecessary programs like 'exact match,' racial gerrymandering" — a litany of Democratic Party criticisms of Republican voting policy.
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Kemp, who is in charge of elections and voter registration in Georgia, faced backlash after the Associated Press reported Tuesday that his office put more than 53,000 voter applications on hold, nearly 70% of which are African American, because they failed to clear the state's "exact match" standard.
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The Campaign Legal Center and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law argued in the suit, which was filed in a federal district court on Thursday, that the state's "exact match" requirement violates the Voting Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act and the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
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Those issues became a national topic on October 9, when the Associated Press reported that 53,000 voter registrations, 70 percent of them from black applicants, were being held by Kemp's office for failing to clear an "exact match" process that compares registration information to Social Security and state driver records.
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The Associated Press reported earlier this month that his office also froze 25,25 voter applications under its "exact match" policy, which allows officials to reject voter registration forms if the applicants' information doesn't precisely correspond with state and federal records—even if it's only off by a comma or a hyphen.
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In Georgia, a coalition of civil rights groups is suing Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp after an Associated Press report found 53,000 people -- nearly 70% of them black -- had their registrations put on hold because minor mismatches on documents like their driver's licenses violate the state's new "exact match" requirement.
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Kemp, who is also in charge of elections and voter registration in Georgia, faced backlash after The Associated Press reported that his office had put more than 53,000 voter applications on hold, nearly 70% of which are from African-Americans, because they failed to clear the state's controversial "exact match" standard.
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The demand from the Abrams campaign comes in response to an Associated Press report on records it obtained showing Georgia has put a hold on more than 22017,000 voter registration applications -- nearly seven-in-ten of them belonging to African Americans -- because they failed to clear the state's "exact match" standard.
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She rattled off a list of concerns, pointing to absentee ballots thrown out by what she called "the handwriting police;" a shortage of paper ballots to back up broken voting machines; and Georgia's so-called "exact match" voter registration rules that require information on voter applications to precisely match state or federal files.
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Despite warnings from the Democratic Party that confusion around the "exact match" system would likely lead to greater demand for provisional ballots (in addition to the state's record-high turnout during early voting), some precincts ran out of provisionals well before the polls closed, according to the brief filed by Fair Fight Action.
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Despite celebrity backers such as Oprah Winfrey, Abrams faced a wave of alleged voter suppression tactics, including lack of power cords for voting machines in majority-black voting precincts and a new "exact match" voting law, as well as a mass removal of tens of thousands of inactive voters from the state rolls.
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Abrams had previously called on Kemp, who served as Georgia's secretary of state until stepping down after Election Day, to resign over an Associated Press report that more than 53,000 voter registration applications — 70 percent of them from black voters — were on hold after failing to meet the state's "exact match" law.
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Despite being on hold, all of the 53,000 pending voters will be able to vote this year with a proper photo ID that matches their registration, said Michael McDonald, an elections law expert at the University of Florida, who was an expert witness in a lawsuit over the issue of exact-match registration.
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National attention to Georgia's problems increased when the Associated Press reported that some 53,000 voter registrations, roughly 20203 percent of them from black voters, had been put on hold by Kemp's office for failing to clear an "exact match" process where registration information was compared to driver's license and Social Security information.
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And last week, The Associated Press reported that Mr. Kemp has suspended the registrations of 53,000 voters, 70 percent of whom are African-American, for failing the state's unusually strict "exact match" policy, which requires a voter's name on his or her registration to be identical to that on other state records.
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Kemp -- who, as Georgia secretary of state, is also in charge of elections and voter registration -- faced backlash after it was reported his office had put more than 53,000 voter applications on hold, nearly 70% of which are from African-Americans, because they failed to clear the state's controversial "exact match" standard.
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The Campaign Legal Center, however, is concerned that voters who cast ballots by mail will not have that opportunity, and if their ballots are rejected under the "exact match" rule -- and they do not successfully navigate the bureaucracy within a 26-month window -- they could see their names purged from the voter rolls.
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There's been Georgia's closing of voting locations, the removal of inactive voters from registration rolls, the rejection of absentee ballots and the carrying out of an "exact match" spelling law passed last year that the Associated Press revealed put almost 50,000 new voter registrations on hold — with 70 percent of those voters African-Americans.
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Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, including documents "related to closing, moving, or consolidating polling sites," details about voting machines, and communications related to the thousands of voter registrations placed on hold for failing to clear an "exact match" policy that compares voter registration information to state and federal documents like driver's licenses and Social Security cards.
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On Thursday, several groups, including the Georgia NAACP, the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Atlanta, joined other civil rights groups in filing another lawsuit over the exact match process, arguing that it continues to disproportionately affect nonwhite applicants and that the 2017 law serves no legitimate purpose and violates a number of federal measures.
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" In an appearance on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, Abrams said it was a "desperate attempt" by Kemp to "distract people from the fact that two different federal judges found him derelict in his duties and have forced him to allow absentee ballots to be counted and [to allow] those who are being captive by the 'exact match' system … to vote.
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Mr. Kemp also used Exact Match, a version of the infamous Crosscheck database, to put tens of thousands of citizens in electoral limbo, refusing to place them on the rolls if an errant hyphen, a stray letter or a typographical error on someone's voter registration card didn't match the records of the state's driver's license bureau or the Social Security office.
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The state also has an "exact match" law, enacted last year, whereby a voter registration application must be identical to the information on file with Georgia's Department of Driver Services or the Social Security Administration; if they don't match, or no such information is on file, then the registration is put on hold until the applicant can provide additional documents to prove their identity.
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He used an "exact match" process to hold up more than 53,000 voter registration applications, which meant that if the information does not match the database — often due to things like a misspelled name, a middle name not being fully written out, or a missing hyphen — an application is held for additional screening and the applicant is notified and given a period to correct their information.
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In the lead-up to the 2018 election, for example, then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who was simultaneously the Republican candidate for governor, placed about 53,000 voter registration applications on hold because of an "exact match" law that required the information on those applications to precisely match information on file with the state's Department of Driver Services and the Social Security Administration.
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With perhaps the most publicity the role has had in recent memory, Georgia has been plastered across the news amid revelations that an eye-popping 222,25 mostly-minority voter registrations have been placed on hold under the state's "exact-match" policy, which requires the name on a person's voter registration to exactly match the name on their ID. Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is one of three—including the aforementioned Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Ohio Secretary of State John Husted—who are holding that position while running for higher office, effectively overseeing their own elections.
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