There are 455,000 people on the state’s inactive voter list, but Secretary of State Nancy Landry says they are still able to vote in the upcoming primaries.
“If you come to vote, you will be allowed to vote. We will just confirm your address while you’re there. And then you will be moved back to the active list,” Landry said.
Landry says a registered voter gets put on the inactive list if he or she has not cast a ballot in the last ten years and did not respond to an address confirmation card sent by the Secretary of State’s Office.
“Those are people who haven’t voted in 10 or more years and likely don’t live in the state anymore, or have passed away,” Landry explained.
Landry says there has been an increase in the number of inactive voters this year because of a law approved in 2024 that allows the Secretary of State to move voters to the inactive list if they can’t verify their address and they haven’t voted in more than a decade.
“If you get an address confirmation card in the mail, return it and let us know that you do live there. Because that’s how we keep our voter rolls clean,” Landry said.
She says a person can be completely taken off the voter rolls if one who is already on the inactive voter rolls does not vote in two consecutive federal election cycles.
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