Voting group plans texting effort to prevent wrongful purges

A voting advocacy group plans to text 1 million voters ahead of the 2020 election to prevent eligible voters from being wrongfully removed from the voter rolls.

The texting push from the group, All Voting is Local, comes amid growing alarm in the United States over the way election officials can remove someone from the rolls while giving them limited notice. Several states remove people from the rolls if they don’t vote over a period of years and miss mailings from election officials asking them to confirm their address.

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