North Carolina Voter Rolls Refreshed
North Carolina has removed over 700,000 individuals from its registered voter list, officials say. The State Board of Elections announced Thursday that 747,000 people have been removed from voter rolls in the last 20 months due to ineligibility.
“The county boards follow careful policies to ensure that only ineligible records are removed, not those of eligible voters,” the Board of Elections said in a press release. “Meanwhile, newly eligible voters are constantly being added to the registration rolls in our growing state,” the board added. “Currently, North Carolina has nearly 7.7 million registered voters.”
A common reason for removal from voter rolls was moving residences — either within the state without notifying election officials or to another state altogether. Other reasons included failing to vote in the last two federal elections and not responding to follow-up notifications, death, felony convictions, requests to be removed, and lack of U.S. citizenship.
