354:'s move in 2012 to purge "non-citizens" from the voting rolls after her office found that over one hundred of the voters on the list were "sure matches" as legally registered voters. After determining that the list that she was given was faulty, she refused to proceed with the purge, declaring, "We need to make sure we have reliable and credible information, by a preponderance of evidence. We could prove that the information was not credible before sending letters and even the Division of Elections has admitted substantial flaws. I did not feel we had credible information and told them I wouldn't send until they could give me a better list."
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known by the manufacturer of the voting machines, saying, "We took over this equipment in 2007. They never disclosed the error. The company (Sequoia Voting
Systems) didn't own up to it real quickly and neither did the state. And we had to prove that it was a software error and we did so." In the 2012 general election, a printing error occurred that impacted nearly thirty thousand absentee ballots, which she asserted was the fault of the vendor her office used to print the ballots.
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nominee, with 74% of the vote. She was re-elected without opposition later that year in the regularly-scheduled election and in 2002. During her tenure in the legislature, Bucher attained a reputation "for her liberalism and fiery rhetoric, especially on education and healthcare." When she received a
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letter from a diocese condemning her position on abortion rights, she tore up the letter and decided to stop attending mass, saying, "I resent that the
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