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17,000 Inactive Dona Ana County Voters To Be Purged From Rolls

  The Doña Ana County Clerk’s Office will soon purge 17,000 inactive voters from its roster. Inactive voters are identified when mail from the Bureau of Elections is returned and the voter fails thereafter to vote for four consecutive years.

State law requires counties to purge the voter rolls on a regular basis in years following a General Election.

Doña Ana County Clerk Lynn Ellins said that prior to the 2014 General Election in November, Doña Ana County was showing more than 17,000 voters as inactive. After the purge, Doña Ana County is expected to retain about 99,000 active voters in its registration database. 

Voters purged from the roster must re-register in order to recover their ability to vote in future elections.

 

Information from Doña Ana County