Three States Accused of Illegally Purging Voter Lists [View All]

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Michigan's SOS is a piece of work. Be sure to read the part, "Michigan's Secretive Approach", on the second page. We tried in the last election to get a Dem, Macomb County's Clerk, elected, but she lost. I wonder how many of the purged would have voted for her.


Three States Accused of Illegally Purging Voter Lists

By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

Posted on July 25, 2008, Printed on July 26, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/92695/

Election officials in a handful of states appear to be ignoring the federal law dictating the way registered voters may be purged from voter rolls, civil rights attorneys say.

National voting rights groups have contacted officials in Kansas, Michigan and Louisiana in recent weeks because those states appear to be purging registered voters after election officials found duplicate names and birthdays of people on their voter lists and in out-of-state databases, such as driver's license records.

The states are assuming that a more recent driver's license or voter registration in another state indicates that the voter has relocated, meaning the voter registration tied to their prior address is no longer valid. While purging voters who move, die or are imprisoned is a routine part of managing elections, the federal law governing purges -- the National Voter Registration Act -- lays out a multiyear process of trying to contact voters to confirm a change of address before deleting them from voter rolls.

The election attorneys say the NVRA process seeks to err on the side of protecting voting rights and cannot be circumvented by what appears to be a duplicate voter registration.


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