Indiana Has Scrubbed 500,000 Registered Voters from the Rolls Since Nov. Election

[L. Coyote]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/20/1654683/-Indiana-Has-Scrubbed-500-000-Registered-Voters-from-the-Rolls-Since-Nov-Election

Nearly half a million individuals have been deleted from Indiana's list of registered voters since the Nov. 8, 2016, general election.

Republican Secretary of State Connie Lawson said Tuesday that the removals are part of an ongoing effort to clean up the state's voter records after she determined her predecessors largely ignored the time-consuming task.

"I discovered voter list maintenance was not being done statewide and many outdated voter registrations were still on the rolls," Lawson said. "I made it a priority to ensure our state's list was accurate and that we followed the federal law."

Across Indiana, 481,235 registered voters were purged, or about 10 percent of the state's total.

[niyad]

1. hmmm, do we really need to see a breakdown of those purged voters?? or can we guess?

[maxsolomon]

4. yes, we do need a breakdown of the purged

if they're dead, I'm not upset.

but if they're minorities, then work needs to be done to get them re-registered.

[MFM008]

2. yup

no more of that voting for Obama like in 2008.

[jaysunb]

3. This will be before the court by Friday afternoon.

No way the ACLU will let them play this cute little game.

[Hoyt]

5. While I definitely don't trust GOPers, this is not uncommon. Lots of people move, haven't voted in

in years, etc., yet states leave them on the voter roles. I was on a list in a small town that I moved from for over 10 years. Now, if any of the people removed voted in 2016 or even the last 4 years or so, that's a different issue.