Reply #13: Here are the two parts that seemed most significant to me

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"Robert J. Bennett, the Republican chair of the Cuyahoga Board of Elections, and the chair of the Ohio Republican Party, has confirmed that prior to the 2004 election, his BOE eliminated -- with no public notice -- a staggering 175,414 voters from the Cleveland-area registration rolls. He has not explained why the revelation of this massive registration purge has been kept secret for so long"

AND

"The eliminations have been given credence by repeated sworn testimony and affidavits from long-time Cleveland voters that they came to their usual polling stations only to be told that they were not registered. When they could get them, many were forced to cast provisional ballots which were highly likely to be pitched in the trash, or which remain uncounted."

The first part indicates purging without notice, and the second part confirms that many of these were active voters.

Also, I've read a number of times that the only basis for many of the purges was that they hadn't voted in a while. My understanding is that that is illegal.