{"id":2414759,"date":"2025-03-24T18:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-preparing-to-cancel-455000-voter-registrations-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T18:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:07:44","slug":"georgia-preparing-to-cancel-455000-voter-registrations-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-preparing-to-cancel-455000-voter-registrations-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia preparing to cancel 455,000 voter registrations &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-preparing-to-cancel-455000-voter-registrations-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2414759&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Georgia is set to cancel around 455,000 inactive voter registrations, marking one of the largest removals in U.S. history. This decision follows the identification of over half of these registrations through the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), which helps states determine when voters have moved and may no longer be eligible. According to state Elections Director Blake Evans,the intent is to maintain a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/raffensperger-touts-georgias-clean-voter-list-as-trump-repeats-fraud-claims\/\" title=\"Raffensperger highlights ...&#039;s secure voter list while Trump persists with &#039;fraud&#039; allegations.\">clean voter list<\/a> within legal boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Voters become classified as inactive if they appear to have moved, often indicated by filing change-of-address forms, and their registrations may be canceled if they miss two <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">consecutive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-to-tip-scales-in-primaries-to-ensure-gop-wins-senate-what-i-care-about-is-electability\/\" title=\"McConnell To Tip Scales In Primaries To Ensure GOP Wins Senate: \u2018What I Care About Is Electability\u2019\">general elections<\/a><\/a>.This action will affect approximately 255,000 voters who are believed to have relocated out of Georgia, in addition to those who haven&#8217;t voted in the last nine years or whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-postal-service-makes-announcement-on-mail-in-ballots-ahead-of-midterm-elections\/\" title=\"US Postal Service Makes Announcement on ...-In Ballots Ahead of Midterm ...\">election-related mail<\/a> was returned as undeliverable.<\/p>\n<p>Voting rights activists have expressed concerns that eligible voters may unintentionally lose their registrations, emphasizing that individuals should not be removed from voter rolls simply for choosing not to vote.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div 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summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/sweeping-cancellation-of-455k-voter-registrations-planned-in-georgia\/4KTEZHQTANH4NFNKXI4I3U4NEU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">according<\/a> to the <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution.<\/em> More than half of the registrations that are set to be canceled were identified by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ericstates.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Electronic Registration Information Center<\/a>, which involves 24 states that identify when a voter moves out of state and is no longer eligible to vote, in this case, in Georgia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3357025\/arizona-gop-voters-decide-lawmakers-immunity-traffic-violations\/\">Arizona GOP wants voters to decide if lawmakers should get immunity for traffic violations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a 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Their registrations can be canceled if they miss the next two general elections.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first year since ERIC began operations in 2021 that voters who have been designated as &ldquo;inactive&rdquo; will be removed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;ERIC is the best tool out there right now, and it gives us valuable information you can&rsquo;t get anywhere else,&rdquo; Evans said.<\/p>\n<p>Of those whose registration will be canceled, ERIC identified 255,000 voters who moved out of state and are therefore ineligible to vote in Georgia elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/sweeping-cancellation-of-455k-voter-registrations-planned-in-georgia\/4KTEZHQTANH4NFNKXI4I3U4NEU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">according<\/a> to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>An additional 100,000 people will have their registration canceled in Georgia because they did not vote in the state in the last nine years. Georgia&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/use-it-or-lose-it-voter-registration-cancellations-paused-in-georgia\/Y52PWXXPPJC63CX7OPKC3KKGBE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">&ldquo;use it or lose it&rdquo; law<\/a> holds that citizens lose their registrations if they have not contacted election officials for five years and miss two general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Another 100,000 registrations that are scheduled for cancellation have been made inactive because ERIC found that mail regarding elections to those voters was returned as undeliverable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3355766\/democratic-attorneys-general-resistance-trump-2-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL EMERGE AS SOME OF THE ONLY REAL RESISTANCE AGAINST TRUMP 2.0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voting rights activists in the state said they are concerned that active voters may lose their ability to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You shouldn&rsquo;t be taken off the rolls because you didn&rsquo;t vote,&rdquo; Helen Butler, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-in-floyd-county-georgia-terminates-election-director-after-statewide-audit-discovers-uncounted-votes\/\" title=\"JUST IN: Floyd County, ... Terminates Election Director After ...wide Audit Discovers Uncounted Votes\">executive director<\/a> of the civil rights organization the Georgia Coalition for the People&rsquo;s Agenda. &ldquo;When you look at the voter registration statistics, there are a lot of people registered to vote who just don&rsquo;t make it to the polls because they&rsquo;re dissatisfied with the choices. They decide not to vote, and that&rsquo;s their right.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1771146\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1771146\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia to cancel 455,000 inactive voter registrations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2414760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/montco2.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[6124,6571,4977,35587,32076],"class_list":["post-2414759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-cancellation","tag-elections","tag-georgia","tag-voter-registrations","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/montco2.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414763,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414759\/revisions\/2414763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2414760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}