The removals, in which people are purged because they've died or moved from their listed address or simply become inactive, may be the largest sweep of registration records in recent memory, according to an elections watchdog.
"There's really for the first time a wholesale statewide effort going on to remove voters from the rolls," said Bo Lipari, director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting, a group which is policing the state's halting efforts to modernize voting machines.

U.S. District Court Judge Jack Camp denied a request for a temporary restraining order from civil rights groups representing a Kennesaw State University student from Cherokee County.