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by JaggedJax 1022 days ago
I would say sometimes data needs to be rejected as invalid. I don't know the exact scenario here, but you'll never be able to know if a street number/name alone is unique as almost any street will have dozens or more matches across the country.

If people are jamming their entire address into address line 1, that is also solved by CASS.