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A Big Vote Registration Push Reaches Millions — But Divides Elections Officials

An outside group is blanketing the nation with official-looking exhortations to register to vote. Actual elections officials don't agree whether that's ultimately helpful or harmful.
One of millions of mailers sent this year to prospective voters by the Voter Participation Center. Some elections officials worry it causes more problems than it helps.

A nonprofit group wants to see more unmarried women, young people and people of color on the nation's voter rolls, so it recently sent 9 million letters urging those groups to register.

But the mailers have upset some election officials, who say they've left voters confused.

The mailers clearly state that they're from the Voter Participation Center or its sister organization, the Center for Voter Information. But the letter inside looks like it could come from the government.

It says a review of publicly available

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