OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
3:25 PM – Thursday, September 26, 2024
Over the past 20 months, 747,000 people have been removed from the North Carolina Board of Elections' voter registration list, officials said in a statement Thursday.
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The “vast majority” of those removed from the rolls were deemed ineligible to register because they either moved within the state and failed to register their new address or did not vote, according to a press release from the State Board of Elections. That's what it means. It has been inactive for the past two federal elections.
The commission said personal expungement requests, felony convictions, death, and out-of-state relocation are also reasons for expungement.
North Carolina is one of the seven battleground states where Vice President Harris and former President Trump will face off in the presidential election. In the past presidential election, the only time a Democrat won the state was former President Barack Obama in 2008.
Additionally, the state will hold a gubernatorial election between Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein and Republican Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson.
The purge will take place in just a few weeks. North Carolina Republican Party sues statealleged that it failed to act on complaints regarding ineligible voters listed on the voter rolls. During this time, Democratic detractors accused Republican officials of making excuses out of fear of losing, but now that 747,000 voter rolls have been purged, it appears that the Republican effort was a success. It looks like.
Additionally, residents of Wake County, North Carolina, had filed a legal complaint alleging that both their driver's license and Social Security number were missing from the county's voter registration form.
“Defendants jeopardized the integrity of the state's elections by failing to collect certain legally required information before registering these applicants to vote,” the complaint states. .
There are currently approximately 7.7 million registered voters in North Carolina.
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