On Wednesday, federal judges in Ohio ordered the state to allow voters who had been purged from the state’s voter rolls over the past six years to vote in this year’s midterm elections.
It was the latest voting purge development in an election cycle that has been ripe with them. But despite the deluge of ominous registration news, the reality is that purging the rolls is a regular part of maintaining good election records — and most voters will not encounter an issue with their registration when they go to cast their ballot.
Last month, an investigation from APM Reports, Reveal and NPR member station WABE revealed that in July 2017, more than half a million people were removed from Georgia’s voter rolls. Of those, more than 100,000 were taken off the rolls because they chose not to vote in previous elections and they didn’t respond to notices mailed from the state.
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