Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams continues to clean-up the voting rolls in the state, with roughly 7,755 removed from the registry in November.
According to a news release, this month 7,349 new voters registered, and 7,755 were removed – 6,606 deceased voters, 615 felony convicts, 443 who moved out of state, 64 who were adjudged mentally incompetent, and 27 who voluntarily de-registered.
Democratic registrants make up 45.8 percent of the electorate, with 1,631,845 registered voters. Democratic registration dropped by 5,161, a 0.32 percent decrease. Republican registrants total 1,586,189, or 44.6 percent of voters. Republicans saw an increase of 3,872 voters, an increase of 0.25 percent.
Secretary Adams says, “Cleaning up our voter rolls not only prevents election fraud, it also saves voters and poll workers time, and makes the lines shorter, on election day.”