Since 2006 the Republican Secretary of State in the State of Washington has removed over 450,000 names from the voter lists and reports indicate that almost 1 in 4 elgible voters is not currently registered to vote.
This Saturday is the last day to register to vote online or by mail (you also have to update if you moved or haven't voted in the last two general elections) for the General Election in Washington State. Thankfully we are one of the two States that let you do it online and you can register in person until 15 days before (October 20).
Some of the changes were appropriate
Since 2006, more than 450,000 voter registrations were canceled; of those, nearly 95,000 were ineligible felons or dead, and almost 55,000 were canceled because they duplicated registrations that already existed. The rest were people who moved out of state, asked to be removed, or had not voted in the years covering two federal general elections.
but it is the last section that raises real concerns since over since someone who might not have voted in 2 general elections would also have been removed.
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