In a story that appears to be flying below the radar this morning, except for KVIA's ABC News Channel 7 out of EL PASO / LAS CRUCES, Bernalillo County has reportedly removed 16,000 people from the voter rolls as part of a routine maintenance process where people who haven't voted in more than four years.
KVIA reports that the Clerk's office stated that that 16,000 voters was not an unusually high number to purge and that Herrera says that in 2003, Bernalillo County purged 17,000 voters from the rolls.
Maybe 16,000 isn't an unusually high number for Bernalillo County, however that doesn't mean that there isn't an underlying problem with the way elections are being managed in the states' largest county- seeing as there were over 6000 provisional ballots issued to voters in the 2004 General Election, the majority of which were of course disqualified.
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