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Amid special election to replace Rep. Mark Green in Tenn., one county explains purge of 80k voters from rolls

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Amid special election to replace Rep. Mark Green in Tenn., one county explains purge of 80k voters from rolls

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2d ago

Amid special election to replace Rep. Mark Green in Tenn., one county explains purge of 80k voters from rolls

www.newschannel5.com /news/amid-special-election-to-replace-rep-mark-green-in-tennessee-one-major-county-explains-purge-of-80-000-voters-from-rolls

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I did the math. There are approx 570,000 voting age adults in Davidson County. 15% were purged.
That’s not registered voters. That’s people are old enough to vote. I think there are approx 440k registered voters which puts it up to about a 18% purged.
According to the Secretary of State’s data, in June of 2025 there were 18k inactive voters but the purged 66k inactive voters. Wtf.
How can you purge more inactive voters than the total number of inactive voters?
Source: TN SoS Stats
You know, this is not unfair.
Most of those purged were cut from the rolls in March, before anyone knew a special election was coming.
They were cut from the rolls after the Davidson County Election Commission sent letters to voters more than two years ago, that were returned as undeliverable.
People whose letters were returned were purged after they did not vote in two consecutive November elections.
"We don't purge anyone 90 days before an election," Roberts said.
He said people purged may have moved or died.
Roberts said if someone was purged, and they come to vote in the primary election they can re-register to vote for the general election, which is on December 2.
- So I was under the impression that my voter registration in Texas was in good standing, as I've voted in every election for the past 6 years living at the same address. I received a letter from the county Voter Registrar saying that my registration was in question because my current residence is different from the one on my registration card. I have not moved, my address has not changed, and I renewed my DL using that same address 2 months prior. After angrily contacting them to find out WTF happened, I found out that they tried to mail my latest voter registration card and it came back as undeliverable. So through zero fault of my own I had to mail in a form by a 30 day deadline (at this point, less than 10 business days) to verify what they already knew. I will have to keep checking my status assuming that this can happen again, and if it's too close to an election, I'm screwed.
  
  And this is why the USPS cannot be allowed to be privatized. You know as soon as that happens they'll start doing blatant partisan bullshit like not delivering reliably to certain areas just to get that sort of response.
  
  I was checking my registration every few days leading up to the 2024 election, Texas as well. Luckily nothing happened but I know they pull shit like this.
  
  I gave $5 to the TX GOP like 20 years ago and gave them my email address (I still get emails to this day as well as Republican mailers, but never Democrat ones). I feel like that's slightly insulated me from their bullshit.
  
  If the process in this Tennessee county is as described in the article, it's not unfair. Playing fuck around with voter registrations that have no issues is something else entirely.
The South, land of the disenfranchised.
And millions were purged in 2024. One of the republican party's favorite tactics as of late.
"One county" and it's the second most populated county in the state

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