Gwinnett elections officials prepare to alert 'inactive' voters their names may be removed from rolls

Gwinnett County elections officials are getting ready to notify some 22,000 voters that their names could be removed from voter rolls if they don't update their voter information.

A report in the Gwinnett Daily Post said elections officials will mail so-called NGE notices to voters who have not cast ballots in the last two general elections. Such voters are deemed "inactive" by the Georgia Secretary of State's Office. 

There is a change this year in how Georgia removes inactive voters from rolls; state law under House Bill 316 calls for the state to send official notices to voters to tell them their names will be removed if they don't communicate with elections officials. In the past, the cancellation occurred without voter notification. 

Gwinnett Elections Supervisor Kristi Royston said the state will handle such notifications for all other counties in Georgia, but Gwinnett is different. Gwinnett is the lone county in Georgia that falls under a federal requirement to provide elections materials in English and Spanish, so the county will handle its own notifications.

Royston told the newspaper that voters who receive an NGE notice will have 30 days to update their voter information.

There is no word yet on when the notices will be mailed.