Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger plans to cancel the inactive voter registrations of 191,000 people who are scheduled to lose their ability to vote in Georgia next month.
The cancellations, called voter “purges” by their critics, will remove the registrations of voters who election officials believe moved away in recent years. Raffensperger announced Tuesday that their registrations will be canceled unless they respond to mailed notices from county election offices within 30 days of receipt.
Voter registration cancellations are on the rise this year as election officials clear a backlog of inactive voters in Georgia, a state known for removing a record-breaking 534,000 voter registrations in 2017.
