the u.s. district judge, claude helton said i just don t find there s a strong showing of any inequitable treatment or the deprivation of anyone s rights. if these voters that were purged were also registered in another state, is there really a problem? that wouldn t be the problem. the problem is that these kind of purges so close to an election cause confusion and can cause intimidation. so if this were a federal election, this type of purge would be clearly illegal because purging is not allowed within 90 days of any federal election. but this case just shows us how important state voting rights law are, so it s not as clear under state law as it is federal law, but doing this type of list maintenance or purging, which does have some errors in it and does cause confusion is not allowed under principle under federal law and should not be allowed under state law either. you bring up this margin of error. as you look at how this race is rolling out, it s expected to be very close w