Georgia Nearly Purged Hundreds Of Eligible Voters By Mistake

Georgia election officials were poised to wrongly remove hundreds of people from the state’s voter rolls — until journalists with APM Reports unearthed the error.

Last week, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office released a list of more than 313,000 infrequent voters — about 4 percent of all the state’s registered voters — who will have their registrations canceled unless they respond to notices that are about to be mailed or otherwise confirm their registration.

An APM Reports review found 294 records on the removal list that match voters who shouldn’t be purged because they’d voted recently enough to be ineligible for removal under the state’s election law.