Voter Registrations Canceled. No. Wait, That's Wrong.

LANSING, MI – In the current politically charged atmosphere, Michigan election officials probably couldn’t have picked a worse time to make a bumble.

State Secretary of State Ruth Johnson’s office sent out hundreds of “notices of cancellation” challenging the registration of Michigan voters who moved out of the state, then returned.

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The voters were flagged by the Interstate Crosscheck system, used by 29 states to identify fraud and scour ineligible voters from registration lists, Bureau of Elections Director Chris Thomas told The Detroit News.

The state elections bureau notified municipal clerks on Jan. 13 of the voters who were supposedly ineligible because they had moved, saying the Interstate Crosscheck information was “reliable.”

An analyst with Interstate Crosscheck told The Detroit News in an email that the voters flagged by the system had moved to and registered to vote in another state at one time.

Interstate Crosscheck is reportedly building a new list.

The earliest voters would have been affected was 2019, Thomas told The Detroit News.

» Read more about the snafu on The Detroit News.