The North Carolina State Board of Elections has removed hundreds of thousands of registrants from voter rolls since last year as early voting begins in the state on October 17th.
On Thursday, the State Board of Elections said that routine voter roll maintenance required by federal law removed more than 747,000 registrants from the voter rolls last year, including nine people who were registered as foreign nationals. announced that it had been done.
WRAL News report:
Of the 747,274 people removed from the voter rolls, about half were people who recently moved or died.
Most of the rest have been removed because they haven't voted in years, and state law says they are ineligible to remain registered.
A small number of people were removed for a variety of other reasons, including those recently convicted of felonies and those who simply asked not to be voters anymore.
Last year, the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) obtained North Carolina voter roll records that showed more than 1,400 registrants were flagged as potential aliens.
Records show that ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, election officials identified more than 10,000 registrants as potential foreign nationals.
Ultimately, more than 80 percent of the registrants in question were found to be naturalized American citizens, with the remaining more than 1,400 reported as foreign nationals. Most were undocumented immigrants on green cards, temporary visas, or under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
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