CV NEWS FEED // In a move widely celebrated by election integrity advocates, the Board of Elections for the swing state of North Carolina has purged almost three-quarters of a million names from its voter rolls since the beginning of last year.
Of these ineligible voters, over 100,000 of the individuals listed on North Carolina’s rolls were removed because they had passed away.
The State Board of Elections “announced Thursday that 747,000 people have been removed from voter rolls in the last 20 months due to ineligibility,” FOX News reported.
This number of voters accounts for just under a tenth of the nearly 7.7 million total registered voters in North Carolina.
The Board clarified in a Thursday press release: “That’s an average of more than 1,200 voter records removed from the voter list every single day during those 20 months.”
“The county boards follow careful policies to ensure that only ineligible records are removed, not those of eligible voters,” the Board indicated.
The release noted that registered voters “can be removed from the rolls for many reasons,” including moving out of their county or leaving the state entirely, as well as inactivity, death, status as a convicted felon, being registered more than once, or not being a U.S. citizen.
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According to a chart posted by the Board and compiled using data “from the registration database,” 289,902 of the total number of removed voters (39%) were removed from the rolls due to having moved to another county in the state.
An additional 246,311 (33%) were removed due to inactivity.
The revelation that appeared to elicit the strongest reaction from observers was that 130,688 (17%) voters were removed because they were determined to be deceased.
Florida’s Voice Assistant News Director Eric Daugherty took to X (formerly Twitter) to comment on the chart, and specifically on the fact that over 100,000 of the removed voters were found to have been dead: “Democrats in shambles.”
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk praised the cleaning of the voter rolls on X: “Keeping elections fair means aggressively updating the voter rolls to remove invalid voters.”
“Unsurprisingly, it’s always Democrats who want to keep these updates from happening,” he added.
Analysts consider North Carolina to be among the seven battleground states that will decide the outcome of the November presidential election between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
Almost all experts agree that the state is a “must win” for Trump, as virtually all his paths to retaking the White House include winning its 16 electoral votes.
Trump won the state during his previous two runs for the presidency. In 2016, he defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by nearly four points there. However, Trump’s margin in 2020 against Joe Biden was reduced to just under a point and a half.
Furthermore, during both cycles, the state’s voters concurrently elected Democrat Roy Cooper as governor.
A Democratic presidential nominee has not carried North Carolina since Barack Obama’s sweeping victory in 2008.
