Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel was twice purged from the city voter rolls in the last 13 months but was reinstated by election officials, who allowed him to vote absentee in the February primary even though he did not live at his North Side address.

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This is not a comment, up or down,  on Rahm.  He has said so little to date that he is hard to really evaluate as a candidate.  However this is interesting news as to how the political machine works in Chicago.