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Alabama reporting. Look at us cleaning up the voter rolls! Already registered, no reason to bother me, yet here we are. Turds
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this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
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That last bullet point is how it's worked for as long as I've been registered to vote (decades). If you don't vote in the presidential general election, they assume you've moved/died/been abducted by aliens and cancel your voter registration in the county that you didn't vote in.
But that's the case regardless of whether they think you've moved or not. So that makes this whole thing suspicious.
I would suggest making sure that the address on the card they want you to return with your personal details is actually the voter registration office, and not that of some shady group trying to trick you into giving them your personal information for some other nefarious purpose.
My thoughts exactly. But I called the Secretary of state's office and verified that this was their mailing. The whole thing looked janky, but Alabama's stuff looks janky anyway like you did it on your home computer with an HP inkjet.
I've had people double take at my name change paperwork because it's off-center and somehow looks worse than your average HP inkjet. I just shrug and say "Florida" and it's never been a problem because Florida is also a failed state, lol.
At best this thing is trying to manufacture an excuse to disenfranchise anyone who either doesn't receive or overlooks some mail, so even if it isn't an outright scam as described in your last paragraph it's still blatantly unethical.
I'll admit it's definitely weird, and seems sketchy, but it says right there at the end, "If you don't return this card.. yada yada yada... next time you vote."
So if you don't receive or overlook this letter, then "next time you vote" they'll just have you do what they're asking you to do now. I don't see anybody getting disenfranchised, here. I just see standard bureaucratic paperwork.