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Officer of Election

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1. Any “person who, under color of any Federal, State, Commonwealth, or local law, statute, ordinance, regulation, authority, custom, or usage, performs or is authorized to perform any function, duty, or task in connection with any a pplication, registration, payment of poll tax, or other act requisite to voting in any general, speci al, or primary election at which votes are cast for candidates” for FEDERAL OFFICE. 42 U. S. C. §1974e. 2. A “person appointed by an ELECTORAL BOARD … to serve at a polling place for any election.” Va. Code §24.2-101. Likewise, TN. Office of Public Integrity Under HAVA, the Chief of the Office of Integrity of the DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (or his designee) is a member of the BOARD OF ADVISORS.

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