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North Carolina removes 747,000 from voter rolls, citing ineligibility (thehill.com)

submitted 2 months ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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[–] ccunning 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

If you’re registered in NC, you can check if you were purged here:

https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/

It takes 30 seconds.

[–] caveman8000 5 points 2 months ago

Thanks. I checked just to be sure.

[–] draneceusrex 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for getting this out there. Check myself and a few other people and we are still good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Check back later. This is a government IT system we are talking about here. (Not knocking government IT workers I know.. There is usually bad policy and old processes in play.)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Rumor has it those 747k people now don't have to pay state income tax because that's how this should be working.

[–] something_random_tho 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is 100% how it should work. No taxation without representation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

With gerrymandering and electoral college, there's a lack of representation regardless.

[–] kat_angstrom 17 points 2 months ago

because they did not participate in the past two federal elections, prompting an inactive status.

That's... Not how democracy is supposed to work

[–] grue 15 points 2 months ago

That's about 10% of the registered voters, according to the article.