Erroneous Voter Purges

Many Americans first became aware of “list maintenance,” the process by which election officials remove voters’ names from the rolls because they have become ineligible to vote, have duplicate registrations, have moved from the jurisdiction where they registered to vote, or for other reasons as permitted by law, after the 2000 presidential election. Federal and state laws regulate the purging process and states must adopt safeguards to ensure that eligible voters are not removed from the rolls.

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(These issue papers were created by the National Network for Election Reform, the largest national coalition dedicated to improving eleciton administration at the federal, state and local level.)

Recent News

June 3, 2004: The Lawyers’ Committee sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking for an investigation into Florida’s continued discriminatory removal of voters from the registration rolls.

Read our letter here.