After Georgia purged more than 300,000 voters off its registered voter list, the Georgia Secretary of State is giving about 22,000 people more time to get back on the registered list.
Secretary Brad Raffensperger’s office said today that people who last had contact with the voter registration system between January and May 2012 are allowed to get back on the list.
“We are proactively taking additional steps to prevent any confusion come the day of the election,” Raffensperger said in a press release. “We are taking the unprecedented step to give certain individuals who have been identified as having moved and in need of updating their information additional time to vote or contact their county elections office to update their registration.”
The 22,000 registered voters had voted or had some other type of contact with the voter-registration system in early 2012 but not since.
When the state started to clean up the registered voters list in June 2015, it searched for the registrations of people who had not voted or had any other type of contact with their county elections office.
That kind of contact includes submitting an updated registration, requesting an absentee ballot or signing a petition.