Repeat

Des MoinesRegister.com - April 27, 2009

Outside Des Moines: Marriage license applications & protest petitions

In rural counties, however, few if any licenses were issued.

In many rural counties few, if any, licenses were issued. 

This is just a simple issue of poor proofreading, not catching a repeat sentence. What's even worse is that these two sentences were right next to each other. The first ended a paragraph, and the next was a paragraph on its own. Plus, the two sentences are punctuated differently. The second sentence is the correct one.