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Scott Brown Says Opponent Should Pay For State To Comply With Federal Voting Law | Two days after likening a voting rights group’s successful legal effort to make Massachusetts to remedy its non-compliance with federal voter registration law to a conspiracy to elect his Democratic opponent, Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) has taken his complaining to a new level. Today, he released a statement demanding that Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren “immediately reimburse the state for the cost of this mailing and stop playing politics with the taxpayers’ money.” After several groups sued Massachusetts for its failure to offer some citizens applying for state benefits the chance to register to vote — as is required by the 1993 National Voter Registration Act — the state agreed to contact, by mail, 477,944 welfare recipients who might also have been denied their right to be offered a chance to register to vote and give them that chance now. Warren’s campaign dubbed Brown’s demand a “ridiculous political stunt.”