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Legacy media’s embarrassing feeding frenzy on New Jersey voter registration error
The legacy media has pounced on the story of New Jersey’s voter registration error. But the volume and tone of the news coverage have been embarrassingly out of proportion to the scale of the issue.
New Jersey’s voter registration system is a “mess,” with “little to stop noncitizens from registering to vote if they want to,” according to an alarming-sounding new Politico story.
The report is Politico’s ninth on the subject — including leading today’s “New Jersey Playbook” — in the nine days since the state announced that a software glitch had led to around 6,600 noncitizens being added to the rolls in error. It called that news “stunning.”
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