VIRGINIA: 41,637 PURGED SHORTLY BEFORE ELEC-tion Day 2014. Indiana: 481,235 purged between Election Day 2016 and April 2017. Georgia: 591,548 purged over a weekend in late July 2017. Ohio: two million purged between 2011 and 2016. Millions of Americans—veterans, congressional representatives, judges, county officials, and most decidedly people of color—were erased from the voting rolls.