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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Technically, purging voter lists isn’t inherently bad and is something every state will need to do from time to time. I’m older than the average redditor and have registered to vote in multiple states over the years, because I’ve moved a lot. There is no problem with a state that I haven’t lived in for 20 years getting rid of my voter registration.
Between that and people passing away over time, it makes sense for states to clean up their voter lists every once in a while. Reasonable people can agree we don’t need an active voter list of every resident that has ever lived since the founding of each state.
The controversy comes from *when* states do it. If they’re acting in good faith, they would do this clean up months if not years before major elections. No bureaucracy is perfect, and occasional false positives are inevitable (meaning to purge 95 year old deceased Jack Smith but accidentally purging 22 year old Jack Smith, etc). So, these people need time to get their voter registration fixed when this happens. Governments acting in good faith would want to make sure *no voters are disenfranchised from voting*.
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