Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says her office is working to make the process of removing people from the state’s voter registration list more transparent. Benson wants community members to double check a soon-to-be released list of cancelled voter registrations.
The Secretary of State is tasked with regularly maintaining its list of registered voters. This involves removing people from the list who have either moved or died. As part of this work, nearly one hundred thousand registrations will be cancelled in the coming weeks. That’s due to a lack of participation from these voters in any elections since 2020.
Michigan Department of State spokesperson Jake Rollow says the office will be making this list available to the public.
“We also want people, voters to double check and to make sure that nobody’s registration gets cancelled in error,” Rollow said.
Rollow says most of those who are eliminated from the list have either died or relocated to a different state.
"Because we believe in transparency, and we want everybody to make sure that their registration is active, if they indeed still live at their address, then we are putting this out publicly so that folks can double check the list and make sure that their registration is up to date."
More than four hundred thousand registered voters have been removed from the list since 2019. Close to 8 million people are registered to vote in the state of Michigan.
A final list will be ready for public review in mid-February. You can request a copy of the list by sending an email to ElectionData@Michigan.gov.