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Unidentified witness tells House Administration Committee motor-voter raised registration but flagged voter-roll quality concerns
Summary
An unidentified witness with decades of election-law experience told the House Administration Committee that the National Voter Registration Act ("motor voter") increased registrations but introduced administrative trade-offs that can harm the quality of voter rolls; he urged bipartisan cooperation to address accuracy and public confidence.
An unidentified witness who said he has spent "50 years working on election-related law" told the House Administration Committee that the National Voter Registration Act, commonly called "motor voter," increased the number of registered voters but also introduced administrative trade-offs that can weaken voter-roll quality.
The witness told the committee that important election reforms "have been supported by a majority of Republicans and a majority of Democrats" in the past and cited the Voting Rights Act and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) as historically bipartisan…
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