The State of Georgia has removed almost 100,000 names on voter rolls for being outdated and obsolete.

In a statement, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced: "Making sure Georgia’s voter rolls are up to date is key to ensuring the integrity of our elections.

"That is why I fought and beat Stacey Abrams in court in 2019 to remove nearly 300,000 obsolete voter files before the November election, and will do so again this year. Bottom line, there is no legitimate reason to keep ineligible voters on the rolls."

Per New York Post, of the 101,789 obsolete voter files, about 67,000 belong to people who have changed their address and 34,000 whose election mail was "returned to sender".

Meanwhile, 275 of those belonged to Georgians who had "no contact with elections officials" for more than five years.

Stacey Abrams, a former candidate for Georgia's governor, is pictured below.

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The removal of the names, per New York Post, comes after Governor Brian Kemp signed a number of new voting restrictions into law.

However, these new restrictions were not without criticism, even from President Biden himself, who slammed them for disproportionately affecting Black Americans, per BBC.

He described the laws as "Jim Crow in the 21st Century" and "a blatant attack on the Constitution".

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In a statement cited by the BBC, he said: "Recount after recount and court case after court case upheld the integrity and outcome of a clearly free, fair, and secure democratic process.

"Instead of celebrating the rights of all Georgians to vote or winning campaigns on the merits of their ideas, Republicans in the state instead rushed through an un-American law to deny people the right to vote."

He added: "This law, like so many others being pursued by Republicans in statehouses across the country, is a blatant attack on the Constitution and good conscience."

The BBC reports that Georgia is the second US state to restrict access to voting in the wake of the 2020 election.

This comes after former President Trump made unfounded allegations of widespread electoral fraud after President Biden's election.

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State of Georgia removes almost 100,000 'outdated and obsolete' names off voter rolls