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GALEO: Threat received over voter registration:

"ATLANTA - Volunteers in Hall and nine other counties, working to register Hispanics to vote, have been told to work in teams after organizers said they received a "threatening" phone call. "We need to run you out of this country. You are destroying it," said the caller, according to a tape of the call made available by the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, which is leading the voter registration drive. Since then, the volunteers in 10 Georgia counties that are working to register Latinos have been told to work in teams for their safety, said GALEO's director Jerry Gonzalez. "It demonstrates the dangers of political rhetoric fanning the flames of anti-immigrant sentiment," he said."

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