New website allows Georgia voters to cancel their own registration if they move out of state

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Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced an online program for voters to cancel their own registrations.

The Georgia secretary of state’s office has launched a new way for Georgia voters to cancel their own voter registrations. 

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says the online process makes it easier to ensure voter rolls are accurate and allows voters to alert election officials when they move out of state.

Once voters submit their personal information, it sends the request for cancellation to the county registrar to remove them from the rolls. The voter will then be notified via mail before they are officially removed.  

Raffensperger says the removal process is now simplified, but not new.

“Voters have always been able to do this and they register themselves by mail," he said. "This just speeds it up — and this thing of everyone using iPhones, I think it just really speeds things up for voters.” 

Georgia Democrats are calling for the page to be removed, saying conspiracy theorists could use it to remove voters. Raffensperger said there are safeguards in place to prevent that from happening.