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Henry Redman

Henry Redman

Henry Redman graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a degree in journalism in May 2019 and was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He's a reporter for the Wisconsin Examiner, part of the States Newsroom network.

n this file photo Michelle Orengo-McFarlane looks for her name on a voter registration list in San Francisco, California. Some voters don't discover they've been purged from the voter rolls until they go to vote. (Photo by David Paul Morris/Getty Images)

List maintenance or voter purges: How the practice of maintaining voter lists became so polarized

By: - October 8, 2020

In the last decade, millions of registered voters across the country have been removed from voter rolls. In 2019, Ohio removed more than 460,000 voter registration files from its list. Georgia removed 313,000 people from its rolls in October 2019 alone, and in Michigan, from 2011 to 2018, 1.2 million voters were removed from voter […]