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Contact forms for US Senators and Representatives often have surprising issues like this.

Reserved words in SQL sometimes get blocked as well as things like too many singles quotes or an odd number of single quotes. I've seen the name "Walter" blocked on many forms over the years.

The worst part is that the sender just gets sent to a security or generic page with no idea why, often losing the message they created.



That's upsetting, but what else would I expect from a senator's website that's probably been up for 25 years...




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