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Judge Mark Erwin urges voters to check registrations after motor-voter audit; outlines poll-worker changes
Summary
Judge Mark Erwin told commissioners the county will see effects from a motor-voter audit that moved about 37,000 voter files to ‘inactive.’ He outlined a public-outreach campaign, a vendor texting contract on the agenda, and a plan to recruit county employees to staff polls.
Judge Mark Erwin, speaking to the Mobile County Commission at its conference, warned commissioners that a recent motor-voter registration audit conducted by the secretary of state has left tens of thousands of county voter files flagged as inactive and urged a vigorous public-outreach effort ahead of the May 19 primary.
Erwin said roughly 37,000 Mobile County voter files were impacted by the audit, including about 22,000 within the city limits of Mobile. "We're gonna see it," he told commissioners, adding that many flagged records did not reflect actual moves but were triggered by address mismatches identified in routine audit matching. He said voters who received audit mailings and did not respond within required windows were moved to inactive…
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