SPALDING COUNTY, Ga. — The Secretary of State’s Office confirmed more than 200 people on voter rolls in a west Georgia county were registered to vote when they should not have been.
The Sec. of State’s Office said 226 convicted felons were registered to vote in Spalding County despite not having fully completed their sentences.
That means they weren’t legally cleared to re-register to vote yet.
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“Under Georgia law, convicted felons who have completed their sentences are allowed to re-register to vote. During a comprehensive election-year audit of Georgia’s voter rolls, the Secretary of State’s elections division discovered some instances in which convicted felons who had not fully completed their sentences had been allowed to re-register,” a spokesman for the office said in a statement to Channel 2 Action News. “These people will be removed until they have fulfilled the legal requirements to be allowed to re-register.”
Channel 2 Action News reached out to the Spalding County Board of Elections about how these individuals were registered to vote.
“Georgia’s voter registration system is implemented by their office and all processes and procedures by counties fall under their guidelines,” Spalding County Elections Dir. Kimberly Slaughter said.
Slaughter said Channel 2 Action News to send all questions on the topic to the Sec. of State’s Office.
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