Secretary of State Sam Reed’s elections staffers have finally been given access to a federal immigration database that they asked Homeland Security for but were rebuffed – in 2005 and 2006. But now, whether Washington has the tools to actually use the data remains a big question at a time the question of citizenship checks is becoming a campaign issue in the election of Reed’s successor.
Kathleen Drew, an Olympia Democrat running in the seven-person field, has criticized Reed for not funding a print-edition of his primary voter guide.
Read more here: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2012/07/26/state-may-check-citizenship-but-no-voter-purge-in-offing/
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