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GOP accused of purging voters' names in error

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By Richard D. Walton
richard.walton@indystar.com
Marion County Democrats on Thursday charged the GOP with playing politics with the voter registration rolls by canceling registrations of qualified voters.

Republicans said the cancellations were the result of recently discovered errors that can be corrected before the fall election, and the fact they were caught shows that the safeguards in place work.
At issue is the planned purging of more than 4,000 registrations of people registered in more than one place.
Postcards were sent to those folks notifying them that their ability to vote was in jeopardy.
At Thursday's meeting of the Marion County Election Board, it was revealed that 18 people complained they were mistakenly earmarked for purging.
Marion County Democratic Party Chairman Ed Treacy said those people were disenfranchised and that many more lawful registrations could be purged by a flawed system.
But Republican Doris Anne Sadler, Marion County clerk and an Election Board member, said the postcards were sent for the purpose of correcting errors.
Kyle Walker, Republican member of the Marion County Board of Voter Registration, said no system is perfect and that 18 known errors out of 4,284 cancellations represents a more than 99 percent accuracy rate.
The names of those facing cancellation came from a list supplied by a vendor contracted by the secretary of state's office. The vendor indicated 36,000 registrations were questionable.