Nevada's Active Voter Rolls in Flux
- Election Initiatives
- Source: lvrj.com
- February 14, 2012
02/14/2012 - Nevada's active voter rolls include some very inactive dead residents, people registered to vote in more than one state, and thousands who have moved and never bothered to tell election officials.
Nationwide, up to 24 million active voter registrations are no longer valid or accurate, according to a report released today by Pew Center on the States. It estimates 1.8 million "deceased individuals" populate voter rolls and another 2.7 million have active registrations in two states or more.
Election officials such as Larry Lomax, the Clark County registrar of voters, constantly scrub voter lists to keep them current. Nevada and seven other states this week launched a shared database to make the job easier, more efficient and more accurate with records updated every 30 days.
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