Oregon Sat on 800,000 Dead Voter Registrations for Nearly a Decade

Oregon Sat on 800,000 Dead Voter Registrations for Nearly a Decade

SALEM, Ore., Oregon will finally start scrubbing roughly 800,000 inactive voter registrations from its rolls after letting them pile up since 2017, Secretary of State Tobias Read announced Friday. Read, a Democrat, issued two directives to restart what he called “routine cleanup.” The state quietly stopped removing outdated registrations almost nine years ago and never got around to picking it back up. About 160,000 of those records already met …