After purging more than 300,000 voters from the rolls, Georgia election officials restored roughly 22,000 of them Thursday, citing an error in the way their voting history had been screened.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office said the issue stemmed from the way the process of maintaining the voter list was carried out in 2015.
The affected voters either voted or had some other type of contact with the voter registration system in early 2012, but essentially weren’t given credit for it.
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