TULSA — Over the next several weeks, roughly 181,000 Oklahoma voters will receive address verification cards from the state election board.
The action is mandated by state law, which requires election officials to try to purge unverified, redundant, or potentially fraudulent registrations.
Late last month, the board removed nearly 90,000 voters from its rolls.
Misha Mohr, Public Information Officer for the Oklahoma State Election Board, tells KRMG that the process of removing voters begins with the address verification card.
She says there are seven specific reasons the board would mail such a card to a voter, including duplicate registrations, or a record of voting inactivity over the course of four years.
Fortunately, it’s easy not to be placed on the inactive list.
One can simply fill out the address verification card and mail it back, or visit the election board website and use the online voter tool.
Inactive voters can also simply cast a ballot in an election to be removed from the inactive list.
And to be clear, inactive voters are still considered to be registered, and can still vote.
Voters who do not respond to the current mailing, and do not vote by the 2022 general election, would be purged from the rolls after the that election.