Tens of thousands of Georgians who haven’t voted in recent elections may show up at the polls on Nov. 6, only to learn they are no longer registered to vote and cannot cast a ballot.
In July 2017, more than half a million people were removed from Georgia’s voter rolls. Of those, 107,000 were purged because they had decided not to vote in previous elections and they failed to respond to mailed notices from the state.
That’s according to an investigation from APM Reports, the podcast and radio show Reveal, and WABE.
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