What's at stake? The essential right of voters to assist in updating voter registration records by filing inquiries with their counties.
How did all of this start? Well, let's begin at the beginning forty-four states and Washington, D.C. are required to adhere to federal voter roll maintenance standards loosely defined through the National Voter Registration Act.
Beyond the NVRA, states also have to contend with never ending lawsuits filed by special interest groups who seek to further prevent voter rolls from being maintained.
There is another path to supporting accurate voter rolls through voter engagement.
Most states offer provisions for a voter to submit eligibility inquiries to the county in which they are registered.
With the ready availability of data from useful resources like the US Postal Service's National Change of Address registry, voter inquiries can be a huge assistance in counties of states that conduct slow or no maintenance.
Friends, if states won't keep their voter rolls updated, citizens must have an outlet through which to lawfully petition their government and speak out in support of election integrity.
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