A number of states, including Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia, have taken steps in recent months to remove dead, foreign nationals and duplicates from their voter rolls ahead of the 2024 election.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections also said Thursday that it had removed a significant number of ineligible voters from its rolls.
According to North Carolina election officials removed 747,274 ineligible registration records from the state's voter rolls from the beginning of 2023 through last month, according to a release obtained by the North State Journal.
“Over the last 20 months, on average, more than 1,200 voter records have been removed from voter lists every day,” the commission said. “The County Commission follows a prudent policy to ensure that only ineligible records, not voter records, are removed.”
The registrant is deleted For a variety of reasons including citizenship status. He was inactive during two federal elections and did not respond to mailings from the board confirming his eligibility. Their indefinite lack of pulse. Felony conviction. or requests for deletion.
Of the more than 747,000 registrants who were deleted, 130,688 died. 31,242 people moved out of state. 246,311 people were inactive. and nearly 300,000 were duplicates.
“You may call me crazy, but I think American elections should be decided by the American people.”
The Board of Directors' announcement will be made one month later. a lawsuit was filed Accused by the Republican National Committee and the North Carolina Republican Party of allowing “more than 225,000 people to register to vote using registration forms that failed to collect certain required identifying information before the registration forms were processed.” .
These errors could result in ineligible voters, including noncitizens, being added to the rolls, according to the complaint.
It's unclear how this cleaning will affect elections, but preventing voter fraud could have a big impact in the state. in the end, Marist North Carolina Poll Vice President Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump are now on the same page in North Carolina, according to a report released Thursday.
According to Marist, Mr. Trump has an advantage over Ms. Harris among those planning to vote in person, with 61% for Mr. Trump and 38% for Ms. Harris. Meanwhile, among those who said they planned to vote absentee or by mail, Ms. Harris led Mr. Trump 62% to 35%.
Virginia similarly removed a significant number of foreign nationals from its roster.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (Republican) issued a presidential order In early August, it removed more than 6,000 noncitizens from the electorate who had “accidentally or maliciously attempted to register.”
“You may call me crazy, but I think elections in America should be decided by the American people, and elections in Virginia should be decided by Virginians,” Youngkin said. said In an interview. “The reason this executive order is so important is because it ensures that we have a clean voter rolls.
President Trump congratulated the move, pay attention In a post on Truth Social, Virginia's governor said he is “taking strong initiatives to secure the November election, protect all legal votes, and protect all illegal aliens who are allowed into our country.” will be protected from voting.”
“Every state should follow Virginia's lead,” Trump added.
Last month, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas has revealed that it has removed more than 1 million ineligible voters from its voter rolls.
Among the millions of ineligible voters removed from the rolls are more than 6,500 non-citizens, more than 6,000 felons, more than 457,000 dead and more than 463,000 people removed from the rolls, Abbott said. It was pointed out that this includes voters. suspense list.
The governor's office indicated that of the 6,500 potential noncitizens removed from the rolls, about 1,930 had a history of voting.
“Illegal voting in Texas will never be tolerated, and we will continue to vigorously protect elections from illegal voting while vigorously protecting Texans' sacred right to vote,” Abbott said.
The left was understandably outraged by this effort to strengthen election integrity.
ACLU, ACLU of Texas, Protect Democracy, and other progressive groups complained “Texas voters were likely incorrectly identified as potential non-citizens and removed from the rolls,” the late August letter said, calling the sweep a violation of the National Voter Registration Act. He said it was possible.
Oklahoma is another state that has taken steps to ensure that only eligible voters cast their votes.
On September 18, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (Republican) announced that the state would purge the voter registrations of more than 453,500 people starting January 1, 2021.
KFOR-TV reported Among those eliminated, 97,065 people died. 143,682 voters moved out of state. 5,607 serious criminals. There were 14,993 duplicate registrations. Additionally, 194,962 inactive voters were canceled during the verification process.
Clark County, Nevada; Moved More than 102,000 voters were inactive in early August. Republicans claimed responsibility for the purge.
“The Nevada Republican Party is proud to announce the successful cleanup of Clark County’s voter rolls. This accomplishment was made possible by the NVGOP, the Republican National Committee, the Trump campaign, and numerous is the result of dedicated efforts by grassroots organizations from the “State and Clark Voter Registration Department” and the Nevada Republican Party. said In a statement.
The Nevada Republican Party's executive committee said it looks forward to “seeing the results of voter roll cleanups in the other 16 counties.”
Earlier this month, the Trump campaign, RNC and Nevada Republican Party sued Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar (Democratic) is accused of not properly maintaining the state's voter rolls and suggesting that there may be a large number of non-citizens.
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