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For instance, NPR was the first news organization to report on how the Trump administration built the first-ever searchable national citizenship tool without Congress or the public’s knowledge.
Reporter Jude Joffe-Block and I broke the news and detailed the myriad of questions such a tool posed for the public. Then in September, we reported that tens of millions of people’s voter records had been run through the system. And in December, Jude reported that eligible U.S. voters were getting incorrectly removed from voter rolls as a result.
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