In May of 1993 the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 was signed into law. This law is commonly referred to as ‘The Motor Voter Law” because voter registration application was made simultaneously with a driver’s license application making registering to vote much easier.

“In June 2019, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) released data showing that voter registration rates in a significant proportion of North Carolina’s 100 counties were close to, at or above 100% of their age-eligible citizenry – statistics considered by the courts to be a strong indication that a jurisdiction is not taking the steps required by law to remove ineligible registrants.” Dirty voter rolls
This past February the State of North Carolina settled a 2020 lawsuit on this problem by removing over 430,000 ineligible names from their voter rolls, a 36% reduction.

Here in New York State looks like a similar problem exists. Last November the same organization, Judicial Watch, who sued North Carolina “sent letters to election officials in 14 counties and five states—Arkansas, California, Illinois, New York, and Oregon—notifying them of evident violations of the NVRA.”
New York State Election Law states “In order to have your name removed from the voting rolls, pursuant to N.Y. Election Law section 5-400, you must send a written letter to the local board of elections where you lived requesting to have your registration canceled.”  Paragraph “f” of this same law states a voter would also be removed from the rolls if that person “did not vote in any election conducted by the board of elections during the period ending with the second general election at which candidates for federal office are on the ballot.”

Today, my wife and I received our 2022 election notices from the Ulster County Board of Elections. Once again we received notices for two of our adult children who have never lived with us in Marlboro. Since neither child has voted in Marlboro in the federal elections held in 2018 or 2020 based on Paragraph “f” both should have been removed from the rolls but they weren’t. How many other ‘ghost” voters are on New York’s rolls?