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Thank you We sneak in Use your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by reliable sources Don't believe everything you

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read online except here we're good to go All right

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check the following passage Valens Disenfranchised population four felons can't

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vote I'm your ability Public officials is friendship Yeah punishment

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All right which of these is the least reliable source

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for jordan's research and hear the potential answers but you

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have your own criminal lunch All right well this one's

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a cinch All we've got to do is go down

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the list and check the credentials of these sources might

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seem invasive but if they're legit they shouldn't have anything

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to hide Let's start nixing choice eh Plenty of conspiracy

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theorists will argue but in general government agencies like the

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u s bureau of justice statistics are going to give

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reasonably accurate information except when it has to do with

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aliens But that's not what this essay's about fifty one

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All right since we found at least one reliable source

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this also means we can cut choice d which claims

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that none of the sources were any good and we'll

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also cut choice See as a general rule sites with

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the domain of dot org's dot gov or dot edu

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usually have fairly reliable information because they're typically run by

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governmental or nonprofit agencies Fair voting dot org's may not

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be the most reliable thing but it sounds a lot

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more trustworthy than oh say the criminal watch dot com

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the main clue here is that this is a public

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opinion block and here's a tip The public has opinions

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that are based only on their own feelings At that

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moment don't be surprised if information from such sources have

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little to do with the fact Next time our friend

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asked us to read this block I'll be sure to

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take things with a grain of salt or like a 00:02:03.092 --> [endTime] nine mil Right

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