Elections watchdog group seeks answers after Georgia drops 590000 from voter rollsA watchdog group is pushing the state of Georgia to clarify why more than 591000 people were struck from the voter rolls.“Each of the 591548 voters affected by the move had already been on the state’s ‘inactive’ registration list,” the Atlanta Journal-structure reported this week. That means those voters had not cast a poll, updated their registration or address or responded to efforts to contact them for at least three years.
Let America Vote, and an advocacy group run by former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander,wrote in a Wednesday letter to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp that federal law doesn’t permit the purge of voters simply for not voting.
In the letter signed by Let America Vote’s senior policy adviser, Leigh Chapman, or the group requested specifics on the people removed from the rolls and documents related to the purge. Read more. (8/3/2017 10:33 AM)
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