Hundreds of Temple residents were sent notices challenging their voting registration, apparently after an administrative error.
The notices, sent to more than 400 of the city’s 2,000 registered voters, read “Notice of challenge: Your attention is required to remain a city elector!” The back of the notices contain a list of reasons, such as “individual has moved from the address listed on voter registration record.”
City officials say the notices were sent in error and should be disregarded.
“Apparently there was an error by an employee who filled it out. The city has withdrawn the challenges,” said Cynthia Daley, Temple’s city attorney.
Daley said corrective action will be taken by the Carroll County Board of Elections, noting that “the city was dealing with the elections office, not individual voters.”
Per the notices, if residents in question didn’t call a phone number to provide information or appear at a hearing scheduled for Friday at 2 p.m. at the county elections office, they would be stricken from the voter rolls and unable to vote in this fall’s elections.
via Voter registration challenge sent to 425 Temple residents in error – Times-Georgian: News.
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