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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It’s one of the ways to prevent people from voting multiple times and also to clear the voter rolls of people who have moved away and not registered in their new address, died, or been incarcerated (and maybe not eligible to vote). Someone who has not voted in the last two presidential elections, which are the elections that most people vote in if not any other election, they may no longer be living in the area, or alive, or freely among the public. There are other ways that registrars get this information, such as returned mail, vital statistics, or DMV reports, but they are imperfect. So it’s like layering many pieces of Swiss cheese over one another to prevent an ineligible voter from getting through.
The best way to keep your registration active is to vote every election you can and keep your address current.
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