Sandoval County board approves cancellation of 3,577 inactive voter registrations

At its March 13 meeting, the Sandoval County Board of Registration voted to cancel 3,577 voter registrations the county elections staff had identified as inactive after state confirmation mailings.

The board approved the certification unanimously after staff described how the Secretary of State’s confirmation mailings and county processing produce the inactive list, answered members’ questions about voter ID numbers, and detailed ongoing efforts to research questionable records such as registrations tied to P.O. boxes and people age 100 or older.

Chief Deputy (Sandoval County Clerk’s Office) told the board that the Secretary of State ran confirmation mailings in three batches — dated Aug. 6, Aug. 15 and Aug. 17, 2022 — and that the statewide total of confirmation postcards was 163,794, of which 12,820 were sent to Sandoval County. The chief deputy said the inactive list for board consideration is generated only from the Secretary of State’s confirmation mailing and related rules in statute. “They were sent August 6, fifteenth and seventeenth of 2022 in 3 batches,” the chief deputy said. The office said the county’s current cancellation list reflected…