Raffensperger Simplifies Cancelling Voter Registrations and Increasing Voter Roll Accuracy
Atlanta - Today Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced a web portal to allow voters to cancel their voter registration online. While leveraging the same technical process and security protocols as Georgia’s wildly popular and secure OnLine Voter Registration tool, OLVR, this new secure site, allows voters who are moving or opting out of voter registration to notify their county registrar that they want their registration cancelled.
“This is a convenient tool for any voter who wants to secure their voter registration by cancelling their old one when they move out of state,” said Raffensperger. “It will also help keep Georgia’s voter registration database up-to-date without having to rely on postcards being sent and returned by an increasingly inefficient postal system.”
Voters who wish to cancel their registration will simply access the site, enter their secret personal identifying information (such as Drivers License/State ID # or Full/Partial SSN), and indicate that they wish to be removed from the list of registered voters. County voter registration officials will receive a notification through GARViS and remove the voter from the rolls.
This innovative adoption of state-of-the-art technology will lead to fewer clerical errors and peace of mind for any user, knowing that their Georgia voter registration is securely cancelled when they move to another state, or when a loved ones passes away.
Secretary Raffensperger added that he would be providing the secure link to closing attorneys and realtors in Georgia so that cancelling an out-of-date voter registration will be a part of the moving process.
“We do voter list maintenance in Georgia every day,” said Raffensperger. “This is one more method that’s convenient for voters and efficient for election officials.”
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Georgia is recognized as a national leader in elections. It was the first state in the country to implement the trifecta of automatic voter registration, at least 17 days of early voting (which has been called the “gold standard”), and no-excuse absentee voting. Georgia continues to set records for voter turnout and election participation, seeing the largest increase in average turnout of any other state in the 2018 midterm election and record turnout in 2020, and 2022. 2022 achieved the largest single day of in-person early voting turnout in Georgia midterm history utilizing Georgia’s secure, paper ballot voting system. Most recently, Georgia ranked #1 for Election Integrity by the Heritage Foundation, a top ranking for Voter Accessibility by the Center for Election Innovation & Research and tied for number one in Election Administration by the Bipartisan Policy Center.