Once a voter gets on the rolls, deciding not to vote cannot be a pretext for taking a voter’s rights away in what is known as a voter purge. No state should be permitted to remove voters simply for choosing not to vote. States should absolutely continue to conduct list maintenance—that is, removing the dead, those who have moved out of state, or those who are otherwise ineligible. However, the issue of database inaccuracies and faulty determinations means that stripping someone of their rights should be harder than it is now. Losing the right to vote in a state should be the last resort, not
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