http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-11/122093494096820.xml&coll=1&thispage=1
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Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells, whose office issued the letters, and Assistant Public Advocate Jo Astrid Glading confirmed the erroneous notices were the result of an effort to match voter rolls to motor vehicle records.
The Public Advocate's Office has been demanding such an effort to comply with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. But glitches in the computer data -- some as minor as a missing middle initial -- led to notices going to voters who are in fact registered, according to Susan Evans, a spokeswoman for Wells.
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Evans said 300,000 letters went out to residents of Essex, Bergen and five South Jersey counties. She did not know how many were erroneous. Before the mailings resume, she said, the data will be scrubbed -- in particular to keep those voters listed as 208 years old from getting "unduly alarmed."
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