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Posted: 2019-10-30T23:12:23Z | Updated: 2019-10-31T17:15:08Z

Over 300,000 people in Georgia are set to be removed from the states voter rolls but it wont happen without a warning.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) announced Wednesday that the full list of voters at risk of removal is now publicly available. The state has faced scrutiny over its plan to cancel the voter registrations of 313,243 inactive voters who are thought to have moved away. Around 65% of the people on the list 204,937 in all havent had contact with election officials in several years, and either didnt respond to a confirmation mailing or had mail returned as undeliverable. The remaining people on the list filed change-of-address forms with the U.S. Postal Service.

Voting rights groups say the removals are likely to take eligible voters off the rolls and penalize people for not voting. People who choose to vote infrequently and who happen to miss a mailer from the state shouldnt be removed from the rolls, they say.

You can see the full list of Georgia voters set to be removed from the states rolls.

Making the list public gives voting rights groups a chance to contact voters and ensure their registrations arent wrongly canceled.

Now that the Secretary of State has taken our direction and made public the list of over 300,000 voters set to be purged, we will begin the process of analyzing the list to find out which voters are in danger of losing their right to vote and why, Seth Bringman, a spokesman for Fair Fight Action, the voting rights group led by former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, said in a statement .

The Georgia Democratic Party also plans to contact every voter on the list to make sure they dont get wrongfully removed from the rolls, said Sara Tindall Ghazal, the partys voter protection director.

Stripping an individuals right to vote simply because they choose not to exercise it is anti-democratic, she said. The Democratic Party of Georgia is committed to making sure that every one of these affected voters will retain their access to the ballot.

A similar situation arose in Ohio earlier this year. The state was set to purge about 235,000 people from its rolls in September, but first, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) made public the list of people who would be affected. Voting groups praised the decision, then scoured the names on the list and found thousands of errors .