This is exactly the kind of thing that makes people worried about voter suppression

Sure, cleaning up the voter rolls sounds reasonable, but doing it right before an election raises red flags. Purging 747,000 people — almost 10% of voters — is a massive number, and I bet a lot of them are low-income, people of color, or young voters who tend to vote Democratic. If the state really cared about preventing fraud, they could’ve done this months ago in a more transparent way. Instead, it feels like a tactic to suppress turnout in a crucial election. Democracy works best when everyone’s voice is heard, not when we’re conveniently cutting people out.