Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams has announced that his office purged nearly 33,700 dead citizens from the voter registration rolls.
According to a news release, this is the completion of a campaign promise made by Adams to clean up the voter rolls and he’s pleased to have done so. He says, “There is no legitimate interest in dead people being registered to vote. Our administration has made strides in cleaning up the voter rolls, and Kentuckians should have confidence in our election system.”
In the same period, Kentucky also removed 4,252 voters convicted of felonies, 3,435 voters who moved out of state, 586 voters who asked to de-register, and 242 voters who were judged mentally incompetent to vote.