44,739 voters un-registered [legislation]

The Advocate reports:

Nearly 45,000 inactive voters have been removed from the state election rolls since November presidential balloting, the state’s election chief said Monday [December 29].

The registration drop — about 1.5 percent of the state’s 2.9 million registered voters — isn’t nearly as much as in prior cancellation cycles thanks to a presidential election that energized people to go vote, Secretary of State Jay Dardenne said.

This year, the names of 44,739 people were removed from the voter rolls, he said. In 2006, 82,656 voter registrations were canceled, Dardenne said.

Prior to that, 108,850 names came off the rolls in 2004 and 96,281 in 2002, he said.

The state law referred to in the story is La. R.S. 18:193. Posted by MBC at December 30, 2008 06:16 PM