North Carolina has removed more than 700,000 people from its registered voter list, officials announced.
The State Board of Elections announced Thursday that over the past 20 months, 747,000 people have been removed from voter rolls due to ineligibility.
“The County Commission follows a prudent policy of only deleting ineligible records, not voter records,” the Board of Elections said in a press release.
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Absentee ballots are prepared for mailing at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Alison Joyce/Getty Images)
“Meanwhile, growing states are constantly adding new voters to their registration rolls,” the board added. “Currently, there are approximately 7.7 million registered voters in North Carolina.”
A common reason for being removed from the voter rolls was moving residence within a state or to another state entirely without notifying election officials.
Other expelled individuals were unable to vote in the past two federal elections and did not respond to follow-up notifications from the government requesting confirmation of their registration.
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Voters vote at a polling place inside Greenleaf Church of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina. (Alison Joyce/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Death, felony conviction, removal request, and lack of U.S. citizenship were also cited as reasons for removing individuals from the voter rolls.
A Marist poll released Thursday found that among likely North Carolina voters who were asked which candidate they were leaning towards, Harris and Trump were tied at 49%. Of the determined people surveyed, 91% said they strongly supported their choice.
The last time North Carolina voted for a Democratic president was in 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama won the state by 0.3 points, or 14,177 votes.
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North Carolina sent out absentee ballots to military members and overseas residents ahead of the Sept. 20 deadline. Other absentee ballots were sent by Sept. 24 to voters who requested mail-in ballots. Early voting begins October 17th. (Alison Joyce/Getty Images)
In 2016, President Trump won comfortably by a margin of 3.7 percentage points, but in 2020, that margin narrowed to 1.3 percentage points over President Biden.
North Carolina began offering absentee voting to registered voters on Tuesday and began mailing out absentee ballots to military and overseas voters on Friday. Applicants do not need to provide a reason to receive a ballot.
The state must receive ballot applications by Oct. 29, and the ballots must be delivered to county officials by Nov. 5.
Fox News Digital's Chris Pandolfo, Rémy Numa and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
