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Bad Solution In Search Of A Problem

by David Kurtz
08.01.12 | 4:28 am

Philly mayor to TPM about Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law: “This is one of the most frustrating, confusing, and — at the moment at least — poorly implemented solutions to a problem that we’re not even sure what it is.”

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