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Voter turnout stats are only as good as voter rolls are accurate.

On Friday the Orange County Board of Elections will begin mailing no-contact voter cards and address confirmation cards to registered voters who have had no contact since the last two federal general elections. The cards are to identify those persons who have moved outside the county, and who may no longer be eligible to vote using their existing voter registration record.

List maintenance is conducted each year following a federal general election to identify those active registered voters who have had no contact with the county board office since the registration cut-off of the federal general election prior to the last federal general election.

Orange County has identified 12,941 voter registrants who have had no such contact.  Inactive voters whose address is not verifiable using the U.S. Postal Service, will remain on the list of registered voters for a period scanning two federal general elections.  If there is no contact through two federal elections, the registrant is removed from the list of registered voters.