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Throwing people off the ballot based on obscure technicalities that New York used to specialize in, like using the wrong color of paper, is dirty pool deployed by party machines to squash insurgents.—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024 More dirty pool could be ahead.—Jackie Calmes, Time, 22 June 2021
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