In the last 20 months, the North Carolina State Board of Elections has taken 747,000 people off its list of registered voters, the agency said in a press statement Thursday.
The State Board of Elections said in the release that most of the people who were taken off the rolls were not eligible to be registered because they had moved within the state and not registered their new address or because they had not voted in the last two federal elections, which makes them “inactive.”
The board said that death, felony charges, moving out of state, and personal requests for removal were some of the other reasons people could be sent away.
There are seven states that could decide who wins the presidential race between former President Trump and Vice President Harris. North Carolina is one of them. In the last ten years, only one Democrat, Obama in 2008, has won the state in a presidential race. However, Harris has been running close to Trump.
There is also a tough race for governor in the state between Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein.
A few weeks ago, Republicans in North Carolina sued the state, saying it didn’t do anything about reports about people on the voter rolls who weren’t allowed to vote.
Someone from Wake County, North Carolina, said in the GOP case that voter registration forms in their county did not include their driver’s license or Social Security number.
The defendants harmed the fairness of the state’s elections by failing to get some legally necessary information from the applicants before registering them to vote.
Republicans also recently filed a lawsuit to voice their worries after the state recognized digital IDs from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a valid form of voter ID. A judge in the area said no to that claim.
About 7.7 million people have now signed up to vote in the state. Our team at The Hill has asked the North Carolina State Board of Elections for their thoughts.