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Best Practices for Ensuring Compliance with Registration and Voting Procedures

6.0 Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the following for their contributions to this study: Nathalie Lentini and Dominique Nicol for help with scheduling and conducting interviews; and Rebecca Bothwell, Madeleine Dupuis, Phillip Monette, Natasha Myles, Chris Rodgers and Niki Sloan for assistance with research tasks.

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