The Nation - News from Oct. 21, 1986
The Republican National Committee agreed in federal court in Newark, N.J., to stop a ballot security program that Democrats charged was aimed at keeping blacks from voting, but the GOP won a court order suppressing release of depositions that its lawyers said might prove “embarrassing.” The program in Louisiana sent letters to people on voter rolls to see if they actually lived at the addresses listed. If letters were returned as undeliverable, officials were asked to purge the names.
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