Thousands of DeKalb County voters have received a letter saying they’ve been labeled inactive because their mail was undeliverable.
But in many cases, the voters have not moved and cite the letter they received about their status as proof. According to a report in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, DeKalb County has the most registered voters affected by this issue.
The confusing contradiction of being told your mail is undeliverable in a letter delivered to you by the postal service raised alarms and created suspicion in the heavily Democratic DeKalb County ahead of a hotly contested Nov. 5 presidential election. But DeKalb County officials say these residents can still vote despite the alarming language in the letter.
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