I can assume current reasons, but where did it historically come from to strike voters from voting lists? Who cares if they didn’t vote recently. People should just be able to vote…
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An election’s legitimacy partially comes from whether the electorate believes the results are actually reflective of the will of the people. Part of that is confidence that everyone who voted in an election is eligible to vote in that election. This is why we have registration in the first place, so that people can’t “vote early and vote often”. But if we are going to keep a lost of people eligible to vote, we have to make sure that list is accurate. There are legitimate reasons to remove people from that list, chief among which would be the fact that they move to a different jurisdiction, and will be voting there. There may be process within a state to transfer registrations between cities, but there really isn’t anything in place for state to state moves. Further, you don’t want dead people on your list for obvious reasons. Again, there might be ways to automatically get people removed from voter registries if they die where they vote, but what about if they die on vacation? Removing people from voter registries if they haven’t voted for several election cycles accounts for situations like these. It isn’t perfect, but what is in politics?
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