State Challenging 1,177 Oconee County Inactive Voters

The Georgia Secretary of State Office will send notices to the addresses of 1,177 inactive voters from Oconee County next week as part of the state-wide effort to clean and update the voter files.

Across the state, according to a news release from the Secretary of State Office issued Wednesday, the notice will go to 313,243 inactive voters.

Oconee County recipients of the letter can go online to update their registration, contact the Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration, or return the confirmation card contained with the notice from the Secretary of State Office, according to the news release.

The 1,177 Oconee County registered voters who are to receive the letter from the Secretary of State Office represent 48.3 percent of the 2,436 inactive voters in Oconee County and 3.8 percent of the 30,808 total voters in the county.

Of the 1,177 Oconee County voters on the list, 533, or 45.3 percent, had completed a National Change of Address form with the U.S. Postal Service showing they had moved to a different county or state.

Another 285, or 24.2 percent, had election mail returned as undeliverable.

The remaining 359, or 30.5 percent, have had no contact with county election officials since prior to the 2012 presidential election and failed to respond to a confirmation card sent by the Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration Office.

For more on this story, please go to Oconee County Observations.