Over 60,000 voters on NC rolls are dead, registered twice or enrolled in other state, report warns

With midterms elections in North Carolina starting in about six weeks, more than 60,000 registered voters in the state are dead, registered in another state or registered twice under variations of their name, according to a new watchdog report.

"Time is running out. Silly, obvious errors in the voter roll can create opportunities for voter fraud and chaos in a close election. Correcting deceased and duplicate records now will help to preemptively address those risks." Primary balloting in the state begins May 17.

File NC-Voter-Roll-Prep-2022-1P-1.pdf The foundation's audit began in late 2019 with the tracking of a sample of registered voters that matched the Social Security Death Index - to see how long it usually took the state's Board of Elections to remove them from the voter roll after they were listed as deceased.

The foundation found two instances in which registered voters were dead for about 20 years but not removed from the voter roll until 2021.

A total of 42,984 registered voters in North Carolina left the state and established or renewed their out-of-state voter registration before the 2020 Election.

The foundation used the U.S. Postal Service's National Change of Address system and the organization's national voter database to track voters who moved from North Carolina to another state and determine if they registered there before November 2020.

The foundation learned from county officials that the faulty copies can occur when a person registers to vote through different avenues, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles vs. a third-party voter drive "And omits personal identifying information," like the optional last four digits of their Social Security number.

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