A family member was incorrectly removed from the voting rolls. She hasn’t moved in about 7 years, hasn’t done anything to lose eligibility, and has been active in every election during that time. Even the local ones.
She cast a provisional ballot and is trying to sort out what the hell happened to her registration.
Lessons learned:
- Just because you HAVE registered to vote doesn’t mean the state or county hasn’t lost your info since then through a screw-up (or malice).
- California has a process for this on election day, but it’s better to check first.
What happened?
It’s not clear what caused her case, but she was far from the only one with similar problems in this election.
Santa Clara county dropped voters from the rolls through a broken de-duplication effort. And in Los Angeles County, over 100,000 registered voters are missing from the rosters due to a “printing glitch.”
I don’t like to be paranoid, but one of the two major political parties in the US loves suppressing voter participation in areas and demographics that lean toward the other party.
And San Jose and Los Angeles do lean toward that other party.
