2009-07-02T14:52:49-05:00 2009-07-02T14:52:49-05:00 Under federal law, states cannot remove voters from the rolls 90 days before a federal election unless voters die, move out of the state, or have been declared unfit to vote for legal or mental health reasons. But, in some states, like Colorado, the number of purged voter registration far exceeds the number who have died or relocated. Since August 1, more than 37,000 registrations have been purged. This graph shows the <b>percent of purged voter registrations by reason</b>. A larger share of voters removed were <a href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/29999126'>Democrats</a>, and more than half of them were <a href='http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1016712'>active voters</a> in the last two elections (<a href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/29999067'>2004</a> and <a href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/29999065'>2006</a>). 2297 Reason for Removal {"format":{"series-manager.0.dimension-options":[{"font":"normal normal normal 12px verdana","fontColor":"rgb(51,51,51)","labelOptions":"percent"},{"font":"normal normal normal 12px verdana","fontColor":"rgb(51,51,51)"},{"font":"normal normal normal 12px verdana","fontColor":"rgb(51,51,51)"}],"series.default_0.format":{"precedence":1,"format":{"c":true,"ns":true,"p":-1,"t":"n"}},"axis.y.format":{"c":true,"ns":true,"p":-1,"t":"n"},"axis.x.format":{"ns":true,"p":-1,"t":"t"},"series-manager.0.dimension-fills":["rgb(114, 72, 151)","rgb(74, 92, 169)","rgb(228, 86, 31)"]},"type":"Pie"} ZsuB7ZcODdVzWzhAqhU9Mw== Purging of Voter Registration in Colorado http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1016710 Reason for Removal 29998966 2010-01-08T18:21:41-05:00 Under federal law, states cannot remove voters from the rolls 90 days before a federal election unless voters die, move out of the state, or have been declared unfit to vote for legal or mental health reasons. But, in some states, like Colorado, the number of purged voter registration far exceeds the number who have died or relocated. Since August 1, more than 37,000 registrations have been purged. This graph shows the <b>percent of purged voter registrations by reason</b>. A larger share of voters removed were <a href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/29999126'>Democrats</a>, and more than half of them were <a href='http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1016712'>active voters</a> in the last two elections (<a href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/29999067'>2004</a> and <a href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/29999065'>2006</a>).