Republicans take lead in Louisiana registered voters; Democrats claim purge
Louisiana has been a Republican stronghold for more than a decade, but it wasn’t until July 1 that GOP voters officially outnumbered Democrats for the first time in state history.
Republican Party leaders say the data finally reflect the state’s decided conservative lean, but a top Democratic official says his party’s declining numbers are evidence of a campaign to remove their members from voter rolls.
That’s a false claim, according to a spokesman for Republican Secretary of State Nancy Landry, the state’s top elections official. Her canvassing efforts identified nearly a half-million inactive voters earlier this year, but they have not been removed from voter rolls, spokesman Trey Williams said in an email.
It’s likely Republicans had already grabbed their edge heading into the June 27 party runoffs, when they propelled U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow to the November election against Democrat Jamie Davis. The Secretary of State updates its voter registration figures on the first of each month, and the July tally showed 1.064 million Republicans to 1.062 million Democrats.
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