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Error code:   DatasetGenerationCastError
Exception:    DatasetGenerationCastError
Message:      An error occurred while generating the dataset

All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 18 new columns ({'Unnamed: 17', 'Unnamed: 20', 'Unnamed: 16', 'Type of source', 'Unnamed: 7', 'Unnamed: 14', 'Unnamed: 10', 'Unnamed: 15', 'Unnamed: 13', 'Unnamed: 9', 'Unnamed: 6', 'Unnamed: 21', 'Unnamed: 11', 'Unnamed: 8', 'Unnamed: 19', 'Unnamed: 18', 'Unnamed: 22', 'Unnamed: 12'}) and 1 missing columns ({'Type of Source'}).

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hf://datasets/subbuvincent/llms-journ-sourcing-2025/ICRScores/4-SFO-Labor-Day-for-CSV-ann1.csv (at revision e7f4f1afee8ca2a3cb0f1ee78fddc17f94b54543)

Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1831, in _prepare_split_single
                  writer.write_table(table)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 644, in write_table
                  pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2272, in table_cast
                  return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2218, in cast_table_to_schema
                  raise CastError(
              datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
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              Name of Source: string
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              to
              {'No': Value('int64'), 'Sourced Statements': Value('string'), 'Type of Source': Value('string'), 'Name of Source': Value('string'), 'Title of Source': Value('string'), 'Source Justification': Value('string')}
              because column names don't match
              
              During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1456, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
                  parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1055, in convert_to_parquet
                  builder.download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 894, in download_and_prepare
                  self._download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 970, in _download_and_prepare
                  self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1702, in _prepare_split
                  for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1833, in _prepare_split_single
                  raise DatasetGenerationCastError.from_cast_error(
              datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationCastError: An error occurred while generating the dataset
              
              All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 18 new columns ({'Unnamed: 17', 'Unnamed: 20', 'Unnamed: 16', 'Type of source', 'Unnamed: 7', 'Unnamed: 14', 'Unnamed: 10', 'Unnamed: 15', 'Unnamed: 13', 'Unnamed: 9', 'Unnamed: 6', 'Unnamed: 21', 'Unnamed: 11', 'Unnamed: 8', 'Unnamed: 19', 'Unnamed: 18', 'Unnamed: 22', 'Unnamed: 12'}) and 1 missing columns ({'Type of Source'}).
              
              This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
              
              hf://datasets/subbuvincent/llms-journ-sourcing-2025/ICRScores/4-SFO-Labor-Day-for-CSV-ann1.csv (at revision e7f4f1afee8ca2a3cb0f1ee78fddc17f94b54543)
              
              Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)

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No int64	Sourced Statements string	Type of Source string	Name of Source string	Title of Source string	Source Justification string
1	More than 930,000 travelers will funnel through SFO from Thursday through Tuesday, according to SFO spokesperson Doug Yakel.	Named Person	Doug Yakel	SFO spokesperson	null
2	It’s also close to the number of travelers SFO saw in 2019, just months before the pandemic. This year’s prediction is 97% of what the airport handled five years ago, Yakel said by email.	Named Person	Doug Yakel	SFO spokesperson	said by email
3	To make it on time, holiday travelers should arrive at the airport two hours before domestic flights and three hours before international ones, Yakel said.	Named Person	Doug Yakel	SFO spokesperson	null
4	United Airlines advised passengers to leave even more time.	Named Organization	United Airlines	null	The Standard viewed one Friday-morning boarding pass for a Chicago-bound flight that warned of long security lines and recommended arriving three hours early.
5	null	null	null	null	null
6	A United Airlines spokesperson said the three-hour warning was issued by mistake: somehow the company posted a years-old notice to the Chicago-bound boarding pass.	Named Organization	United Airlines	null	The spokesperson shared a corrected advisory
7	Yakel said SFO has not been advised of staffing woes for Thursday, which was expected to be the busiest day of travel at the airport.	Named Person	Doug Yakel	SFO spokesperson	null
8	“I have TSA Pre, so that should make it a little easier,” said Bay Area resident Katelin Tharp, who on Thursday was booted from an overbooked flight to Boston, where she’s beginning her fifth year at Northeastern University. She was ready to try again later. “So, I’ll be hanging out for a little bit.”	Named Person	Katelin Tharp	Bay Area resident	who on Thursday was booted from an overbooked flight to Boston
9	“We’re sad since we just said goodbye to our one friend, and we don’t know if we’re ever going to see her again,” Ellie Mitchell, of the United Kingdom, told The Standard.	Named Person	Ellie Mitchell	null	They had zigzagged across the country by plane — highlights included stops in Florida, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe — after working together at a New York summer camp.
10	Parking at airport garages will be in short supply this weekend, so travelers who want to leave cars at SFO should reserve spaces online as soon as possible, Yakel said.	Named Person	Doug Yakel	SFO spokesperson	null
11	There are no major projects on the freeways near SFO, so with a bit of luck, drivers headed to the airport shouldn’t face major delays, Caltrans officials said.	Named Organization	Caltrans	Caltrans officials	null
12	And company insiders worry that Apple, despite its years of gravity-defying profits, is hamstrung by the political infighting, penny pinching and talent drain that often bedevil large companies, according to more than a dozen former and current employees and advisers	Unnamed Group of People	null	null	Former and current employees and advisers
13	While Vision Pro sales have been disappointing, Apple’s issues with Apple Intelligence exposed dysfunction inside the organization.	Document	null	null	null
14	In a nearly two-hour video presentation last summer, Apple demonstrated how the A.I. product would summarize notifications and offer writing tools to improve emails and messages. It also revealed an improved Siri virtual assistant that could combine information on a phone, like a message about someone’s travel itinerar...	Named Organization	Apple	null	null
15	Notification summaries misrepresented news reports, leading Apple to disable that feature.	Document	null	null	null
16	Then, last month, the company postponed the spring release of an improved Siri because internal testing found that it was inaccurate on nearly a third of requests, said three people familiar with the project who spoke on the condition of anonymity.	Anonymous Source	null	null	said three people familiar with the project who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
17	Apple’s software chief, told employees that the company would reshuffle its executives, removing responsibility for developing the new Siri from John Giannandrea, the company’s head of A.I., and giving it to Mike Rockwell, the head of its Vision Pro headset.	Named Person	Craig Federighi	Apple's software cheif	null
18	“Apple needs to understand what happened because this is bigger than just rearranging the deck chairs,”... “If ever there’s been an example of over-promising and under-delivering, it’s Apple Intelligence.” It was the first time in years that Apple hadn’t shipped a product it had unveiled. *full quote	Named Person	Michael Gartenberg	Technology analyst	previously worked as a product marketer at Apple
19	Some details of Apple’s changes to its Siri team and challenges were previously reported by Bloomberg and The Information.	Named Organization	Bloomberg	null	null
20	The A.I. stumble was set in motion in early 2023. Mr. Giannandrea, who was overseeing the effort, sought approval from the company’s chief executive, Tim Cook, to buy more A.I. chips, known as graphics processing units, or GPUs, five people with knowledge of the request said.	Unnamed Group of People	null	null	People with knowledge of the request
21	At the time, Apple’s data centers had about 50,000 GPUs that were more than five years old — far fewer than the hundreds of thousands of chips being bought at the time by A.I. leaders like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta, these people said.	Unnamed Group of People	null	null	People with knowledge of the request
22	Mr. Cook approved a plan to double the team’s chip budget, but Apple’s finance chief, Luca Maestri, reduced the increase to less than half that, the people said. Mr. Maestri encouraged the team to make the chips they had more efficient.	Unnamed Group of People	null	null	People with knowledge of the request
23	The lack of GPUs meant the team developing A.I. systems had to negotiate for data center computing power from its providers like Google and Amazon, two of the people said.	Unnamed Group of People	null	null	two of the people
24	After this article was published, Trudy Muller, an Apple spokeswoman, said the company had fulfilled Mr. Giannandrea’s budget request for GPUs over time rather than all at once. She said Mr. Maestri had never asked the team to make its chips more efficient.	Named Person	Trudy Muller	Apple spokeswoman	null
25	At the same time, leaders at two of Apple’s software teams were battling over who would spearhead the rollout of Siri’s new abilities, three people who worked on the effort said.	Unnamed Group of People	null	null	three people who worked on the effort
26	Mr. Giannandrea, who joined the company in 2019 from Google, had never led the launch of a high-profile product like the improved Siri	Document	null	null	null
27	Mr. Cook, 64, who has a background in operations, has been hesitant over the years to provide clear and direct guidance on product development,	Unnamed Group of People	null	null	three people familiar with the way the company operates.
28	“It’s clearly a breakdown of leadership and communication and internal processes,” said Benedict Evans, an independent analyst who previously worked as a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz.	Named Person	Benedict Evans	Independent analyst	previously worked as a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz
29	The company plans to release a virtual assistant in the fall capable of doing things like editing and sending a photo to a friend on request, three people with knowledge of its plans said.	Unnamed Group of People	null	null	three people with knowledge of its plans
30	Some of Apple’s leaders don’t think the delay is a problem because none of Apple’s rivals, like Google and Meta, have figured out A.I. yet, these people said.	Unnamed Group of People	null	null	three people with knowledge of its plans
31	The incompetency determination comes three months after a finding from December when Jahmed Haynes, 48, was determined to be competent after receiving treatment at the Western State Hospital in Pierce County.	Document	null	null	none
32	I'm mad about having to go round and round," said Melanie Roberts, Ruth Dalton's granddaughter. "We are no better off than in September, the first time they got him to appear in court. I think the system is broken. I think he’s competent. I think he’s always been competent.	Named Person	Melanie Roberts	Victim's granddaughter	none
33	At a hearing on Thursday, there was a brief discussion about whether Haynes would be ordered to take his medication while in custody. Judge Averil Rothrock said that any order to forcibly give him mediation as part of treatment would have to be resolved at a later hearing.	Named Person	Averil Rothrock	King County Superior Court Judge	none
34	If he chooses not to medicate himself, he is making a choice not to be competent and not to be compliant,” Roberts said. “Somebody in this court system needs to put their foot down and make him take his meds.	Named Person	Melanie Roberts	Victim's granddaughter	none
35	According to the charges, Haynes carjacked Dalton while she was parked along Martin Luther King Jr. Way East in the Madison Valley neighborhood. Dalton had just picked up several dogs as part of her dog-walking business "Grandma's Critter Care."	Document	null	null	none
36	Haynes forced Dalton out of the vehicle and then ran her over, killing her, according to police.	Named Organization	Seattle Police Department	none	null
37	Investigators say Haynes took Dalton's dog, Prince, and stabbed him to death before leaving his body in a trash can in south Seattle.	Unnamed Group of People	Investigators	none	null
38	Haynes was arrested the next day after police said they found his fingerprints in Dalton's car, which was abandoned at the park where Prince's body was discarded. According to the charges, Haynes had Dalton's car keys on him at the time of arrest, along with a knife that had blood and animal hair on it.	Document	null	null	none
39	He goes to Western, they medicate him, and he’s competent. He goes to jail, he refuses meds, and he’s not competent. I’m tired of the merry-go-round," said Roberts. "The state is broken. They are all about comforting a criminal and to hell with the victim.”	Named Person	Melanie Roberts	Victims granddaughter	none
40	Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump 45% to 41% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Thursday that showed the vice president sparking new enthusiasm among voters and shaking up the race ahead of the Nov. 5 election	Named Organization	Reuters/Ipsos	null	null
41	The 4 percentage point advantage among registered voters was wider than a 1 point lead Harris held over the former president in a late July Reuters/Ipsos poll.	Named Organization	Reuters/Ipsos	null	null
42	The new poll, which was conducted in the eight days ended Wednesday and had a 2 percentage point margin of error, showed Harris picking up support among women and Hispanics.	Named Organization	Reuters/Ipsos	null	null
43	Harris led Trump by 49% to 36% - or 13 percentage points - among both women voters and Hispanic voters. Across four Reuters/Ipsos polls conducted in July, Harris had a 9 point lead among women and a 6 point lead among Hispanics.	Named Organization	Reuters/Ipsos	null	null
44	Trump led among white voters and men, both by similar margins as in July, though his lead among voters without a college degree narrowed to 7 points in the latest survey, down from 14 points in July.	Named Organization	Reuters/Ipsos	null	null
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46	In the seven states where the 2020 election was closest - Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Michigan and Nevada - Trump had a 45% to 43% lead over Harris among registered voters in the poll	Named Organization	Reuters/Ipsos	null	null
47	A separate Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll published later on Thursday showed that Harris was either leading or tied with Trump in each of those states.	Named Organization	Bloomberg News/Morning Consult	null	null
48	That poll showed Harris led Trump by 2 percentage points among registered voters across the seven states and was ahead by 1 point ‚Äî a statistical tie ‚Äî among likely voters. The margin of error was 1 percentage point across the seven states.	Named Organization	Bloomberg News/Morning Consult	null	null
49	"It's obvious that running against Harris is more challenging for Trump given the shift in these numbers, but it's certainly not insurmountable," Matt Wolking, a Republican campaign strategist who worked on Trump's 2020 campaign, said in response to the Reuters/Ipsos poll results.	Named Person	Matt Wolking	Republican campaign strategist	who worked on Trump's 2020 campaign
50	He said Trump needs to stay as focused as possible in his campaign "so he's not scaring" away voters who were leaning his way because they didn't like Biden.	Named Person	Matt Wolking	Republican campaign strategist	who worked on Trump's 2020 campaign
51	Some 73% of Democratic registered voters in the Reuters/Ipsos poll said they were more excited about voting in November after Harris entered the race. And while a March Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 61% respondents who intended to vote for Biden were doing so mainly to stop Trump, 52% of Harris voters in the August pol...	Named Organization	Reuters/Ipsos	null	null
52	"We see it in this poll that people are more motivated about the future than the past," said Aimee Allison, founder of She the People, a liberal group that aims to grow the numbers of women of color in elected office. "They see Kamala Harris as the future, and Republicans see this election as just about Trump. Voters a...	Named Person	Aimee Allison	Founder, She the People	founder of She the People, a liberal group that aims to grow the numbers of women of color in elected office.
53	But Trump voters also voiced enthusiasm about their candidate, with 64% saying their choice was more motivated by backing Trump than opposing Harris.	Named Organization	Reuters/Ipsos	null	null
54	Voters picked Trump as having a better approach to managing the U.S. economy, 45% to 36%, a wider margin than Trump had in another Reuters/Ipsos poll this week	Named Organization	Reuters/Ipsos	null	null
55	Harris, by contrast, had a 47% to 31% advantage on abortion policy. Some 41% of voters in the poll - and 70% of Democrats - said they were worried the next president might sign a national ban on abortions	Named Organization	Reuters/Ipsos	null	null
56	The poll was conducted nationally and gathered responses from 4,253 U.S. adults, including 3,562 registered voters	Named Organization	Reuters/Ipsos	null	null
57	Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his campaign on Aug. 23 while the poll was still being conducted, had the support of 6% of voters in the survey.	Named Organization	Reuters/Ipsos	null	null
1	A senior at North Country Union High School in Newport, Wilburn, 17, recalls being in line for the bathroom when the girl in front turned around and reached for her hair. Despite telling her not to touch it, Wilburn said the girl ‚Äúgrabbed‚Äù her hair.	Named Person	Aaliyah Wilburn	leader with the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network	senior at North Country Union High School
2	‚ÄúShe then told me that I felt like a sheep and she imitated the noises of one,‚Äù said Wilburn, a leader with the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network.	Named Person	Aaliyah Wilburn	leader with the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network	null
3	Once, when she was wearing a head covering because she was in the midst of braiding her hair, Wilburn said a student pulled it off and ran away in the school hall. When she wore a headwrap another time, students said she looked like Marge Simpson and that she looked too African for their comfort. “Later in the day, som...	Named Person	Aaliyah Wilburn	leader with the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network	null
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5	‚ÄúI wouldn‚Äôt be scared of going out with a bonnet or a head wrap if this bill was in place at the time of these incidents,‚Äù	Named Person	Aaliyah Wilburn	leader with the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network	said in an email
6	Addie Lentzner, executive director of the student anti-racism network, said she has seen hair discrimination in schools ‚Äî not just in policies and norms but also in the form of microaggressions and racial bias.¬†	Named Person	Addie Lentzner	executive director of the student anti-racism network	null
7	‚ÄúI think it‚Äôs a huge problem in our schools and this bill would help address it,‚Äù Lentzner said.	Named Person	Addie Lentzner	executive director of the student anti-racism network	null
8	Modeled after language promoted as the¬†CROWN Act¬†and already enacted in 23 other states, including New York and Maine, the bill aims to prevent ‚Äúan erasure and minimization of the experiences of marginalized people,‚Äù particularly Black and brown people, Rep. Saudia LaMont, D-Morristown, said during a preliminary ...	Named Person	Saudia LaMont	Rep. D-Morristown	said during a preliminary vote on the bill
9	She cited a 2023 study that found 66% of Black girls in predominantly white schools and 44% of Black girls in all schools report experiencing hair discrimination, and that the experiences typically happen before they are 10.	Named Person	Saudia LaMont	Rep. D-Morristown	null
10	For her daughter, it first occurred in pre-school. While picking up her daughter one afternoon she said she was dismayed to find her wearing a stop sign on her chest that read, ‚ÄúPlease ask to touch my hair.‚Äù	Named Person	Saudia LaMont	Rep. D-Morristown	null
11	A teacher explained that her daughter was reacting to several instances of students touching and petting her hair without her consent, LaMont continued. “So it was in fact my 4-year-old’s idea to make a sign as a signal to her peers to stop violating her body and personal space,” she said.	Named Person	Saudia LaMont	Rep. D-Morristown	daughter was reacting to several instances of students touching and petting her hair without her consent
12	In another incident, her daughter‚Äôs dance teacher asked to have her recently installed braids taken out so the child‚Äôs hair could be put up in a bun to look like the majority of the other white kids in the class.	Named Person	Saudia LaMont	Rep. D-Morristown	null
13	LaMont outlined to her House colleagues on Tuesday the ways in which caring for Black hair is a process. It can take a day to wash, dry and detangle and protective styling, such as box braids or twists, can involve 8 to 22 hours of work.	Named Person	Saudia LaMont	Rep. D-Morristown	null
14	The bill is important, she said then, because ‚Äúhair type, textures, styles, protective hairstyles‚Äù are ‚Äúa symbol of one‚Äôs identity and ability to show up authentically,‚Äù which includes ‚Äúthe freedom to take pride in one‚Äôs appearance in ways people choose that feels in alignment with the traits that are ass...	Named Person	Saudia LaMont	Rep. D-Morristown	null
15	Black women’s hair is more likely to be perceived as unprofessional, she said, citing surveys. Many of them feel they must wear their hair straight in a job interview and report being sent home or denied a job because of their hair. The same kind of assumptions are used to prevent students with certain hairstyles from ...	Named Person	Saudia LaMont	Rep. D-Morristown	citing surveys
16	‚ÄúHair and head coverings do not determine behavior, capacity or competency and people should not be penalized, discriminated against or treated as such,‚Äù she said.	Named Person	Saudia LaMont	Rep. D-Morristown	null
17	Hair discrimination is degrading, disrespectful and invades people‚Äôs privacy in deep ways, said one of the bill‚Äôs primary sponsors, Rep. Kevin ‚ÄúCoach‚Äù Christie, D-Hartford. He pointed to incidents of it nationwide that have challenged athletes, students and teachers.¬†	Named Person	Kevin ‚ÄúCoach‚Äù Christie	Rep. D-Hartford	one of the bill‚Äôs primary sponsors
18	‚ÄúIt seems like a small bill but in actuality, it‚Äôs another big block in the foundation of equity in the state,‚Äù Christie said, adding that it pains him when families choose to leave Vermont after facing racial bullying, hazing and harassment.	Named Person	Kevin ‚ÄúCoach‚Äù Christie	Rep. D-Hartford	null
19	Representing Vermont‚Äôs most diverse community, Rep. Daisy Berbeco, D-Winooski, also a sponsor, told VTDigger the bill is an important step in advancing equity and ‚Äúa step in the right direction towards people feeling safe and welcome in our state, no matter where they are in Vermont.‚Äù	Named Person	Daisy Berbeco	Rep. D-Winooski	represents Vermont's most diverse community, another bill sponsor
20	Rep. Mike Mrowicki, D-Putney, another bill sponsor, said he has heard from constituents who have faced discrimination due to their hair.	Named Person	Mike Mrowicki	Rep. D-Putney	another bill sponsor
21	With the population and demographic of Vermont fast changing, this bill is a common sense effort to make sure that residents are not ostracized or mistreated because of who they are, he said.	Named Person	Mike Mrowicki	Rep. D-Putney	null
22	‚ÄúThe reality that people of color are often ostracized or mistreated because of their hair. It can be as seemingly innocent as people wanting to touch it ‚Äî which is really an invasion of people‚Äôs space,‚Äù he said.	Named Person	Mike Mrowicki	Rep. D-Putney	null
1	Voting, King said in an interview, gives “a little bit of your strength back and a little bit of your voice back. Being able to vote, being able to have a say in what happens in your society, in your state, is extremely important.”	Named Person	TJ King	Outreach specialist, Nebraska AIDS Project	King’s first chance to vote will be in the 2024 presidential election season -- unless a legislative proposal introduced in January that would remove the two-year requirement passes and becomes law.
2	Several of them said they were confused by the arrests because they had been allowed to register to vote.	Unnamed Group of People	null	null	after a new election police unit championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis arrested 20 former felons.
3	At least 14 states have introduced proposals this year focused on restoration of voting rights, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. An Oregon proposal would allow felons to vote while incarcerated. A Tennessee bill would automatically restore voting rights once a sentence is completed, except for a small group...	Named Organization	Brennan Center for Justice.	null	null
4	“Restoring voting rights really is an issue where we’ve seen bipartisan momentum,” said Patrick Berry, counsel for the Democracy program at the Brennan Center.	Named Person	Patrick Berry	Counsel, Democracy program at the Brennan Center	null
5	More than 4.6 million people are disenfranchised in the United States because of felony convictions, according to the Sentencing Project, which studies the issue and advocates for restoration of voting rights for former felons.	Named Organization	Sentencing Project	null	which studies the issue and advocates for restoration of voting rights for former felons.
6	In Nebraska, nearly 18,000 people are unable to vote because of felony convictions, said the Sentencing Project’s director of advocacy, Nicole Porter. That includes 7,072 who fall under the two-year wait requirement and are currently unable to cast a ballot. The rest have not completed their full sentences.	Named Person	Nicole Porter	Director of advocacy, Sentencing Project	null
7	Steve Smith of Civic Nebraska, part of a large coalition of groups supporting the measure, said the wait creates a group of taxpayers who can’t choose their representatives.	Named Person	Steve Smith	Civic Nebraska	Steve Smith of Civic Nebraska, part of a large coalition of groups supporting the measure
8	“You’re civically dead and you can’t vote for the people who are levying those taxes,” he said.	Named Person	Steve Smith	Civic Nebraska	null
9	At the time Nebraska was in step with other states. Now, while a few states require wait times for specific offenses or define completion of a sentence as including things such as fines and restitution, Nebraska is alone in requiring a general waiting period beyond imprisonment and release from parole or probation, sai...	Named Person	Margaret Love	Co-founder and director, Collateral Consequences Resource Center	which keeps a 50-state database on restoration of rights.
10	The bill’s author, Democratic state Sen. Justin Wayne, said he was going door to door in his first election in 2016 and was told by would-be constituents that they could not vote. Much of the reason was confusion over the law’s waiting period, he said.	Named Person	Justin Wayne	Democratic state Sen.	The bill’s author
11	Wayne, who represents parts of Omaha with strong minority populations, said reconnecting people to the voting process is integral to successful reentry.	Named Person	Justin Wayne	Democratic state Sen.	null
12	“When people get out of our system, they’ve got to feel engaged in their community, and the number one way for a person to feel engaged in their community is to be able to vote for the leadership of that community,” he said.	Named Person	Justin Wayne	Democratic state Sen.	null
13	Wilcot stressed she was speaking as an individual and not on behalf of the university.	Named Person	Kathy Wilcot	Member, University of Nebraska Board of Regents	was the lone dissenter from among the nearly 20 witnesses who spoke on Wayne’s bill.
14	“I do think that hopefully the waiting period reinforces the fact that voting is something very special, and hopefully that will be part of the things that an individual would consider if they’re tempted to break the law again,” she said.	Named Person	Kathy Wilcot	Member of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents	null
15	Three of the witnesses with criminal records who spoke in favor of the legislation said in later interviews the waiting period is not a deterrent to future crime, but rather a barrier for those who have served their sentences.	Unnamed Group of People	null	null	Three of the witnesses with criminal records
16	King works in the HIV/AIDS field and volunteers at various organizations, but said voting is still the most direct way to be involved and became tearful when talking about being unable to vote.	Named Person	TJ King	Outreach specialist, Nebraska AIDS Project	King, 51, fought addiction for years and spent five years in prison after being convicted; volunteers at various organizations;
17	“I felt so hopeless and helpless not being able to have my voice heard in this last election,” King said. “There are a lot of things that were on the ballot here in Nebraska that hit home with a lot of things that I advocate for.”	Named Person	TJ King	Outreach specialist, Nebraska AIDS Project	null
18	For the people she works with, being able to register to vote provides a sense of acceptance, especially when there are so many barriers on where they can live, jobs they can work and who they can associate with, she said.	Named Person	Demetrius Gatson	executive director, Q.U.E.E.N.S Butterfly House	Demetrius Gatson is among the more than 10,000 people in Nebraska who has no right to vote because they haven’t completed their sentences. Because of her probation, she will have to wait until 2030 to vote. Since her 2018 release, she has obtained graduate degrees and served in a variety of volunteer roles. Now 48, Ga...
19	Gatson said there are critical issues she cares about, including education and criminal justice, but said, “I don’t have a say in anything that goes on in my country because I’m a felon.”	Named Person	Demetrius Gatson	executive director, Q.U.E.E.N.S Butterfly House	null
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21	“You can’t harm society by voting,” he said. “You can only help it.”	Named Person	Steven Scott	null	Steven Scott, 33, was paroled in 2015 after serving more than four years on assault and other charges. He also has regained voting rights and cast ballots for Republican candidates in his first elections, including 2020. He sees the two-year wait period as one link in a long chain of barriers for those trying to reent...

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