At Least 90,000 Voters Purged From Nevada Voter Rolls, Voting Rights Group Claims
by Colin Kalmbacher | 5:54 pm, October 15th, 2018
At least 90,000 voters were purged from Nevada’s voter rolls over the years 2016 and 2017, according to a list provided to media by the Nevada Secretary of State.
The Palast Investigative Fund announced the release of said list in a Monday press release. The group’s release notes:
Rather than face [our complaints] in federal court, Nevada’s Republican Secretary of State Barbara K. Cegavske on Thursday turned over the list of every Nevada voter whose registration Cegavske cancelled in 2016 and 2017. … [The fund] is releasing the names of the 90,000 residents of Las Vegas and Reno (Clark and Washoe counties) removed because of evidence they’ve moved.
According to the fund’s press release, the voters in question were removed from the Silver State’s voter rolls by way of a postcard removal scheme. Similar methods of removing voters from voter rolls have been enacted by several Republican secretaries of state across the country in recent years.
Postcard-style purges work in the following fashion–noted in a previous Law&Crime article about similarly alleged shenanigans in Alabama:
[The state sends] postcards to…voters. The [original] postcards were not forwardable–meaning if a voter moved, the postcard wouldn’t follow them to their new address. Postcards that came back as non-deliverable resulted in the state sending a forwardable postcard to the old address.
If the second card was not returned within [a certain time frame], then voters were moved to “inactive” status. As many voting rights advocates have pointed out, such revisions of voter rolls disproportionately impact poor and minority voters–who tend to move around more often than their white and wealthy counterparts.
The Monday press release claims, however, that many of the voters removed from Nevada’s rolls in this fashion actually hadn’t moved at all.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/at-least-90000-voters-purged-from-nevada-voter-rolls-voting-rights-group-claims/
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