Why voters leave the rolls

Statewide removals by reason, from the State Board's monthly reports, January 2010 to September 2026.

The reports count 250,024 removals from October 2025 to September 2026. The biggest groups: Moved to another county (42%), Address confirmation mailings (32%) and Death (17%).

Removals are not all voters leaving Maryland. 105,025 of them were voters transferred out of a county, and those voters can still be registered in another county. The reports do not say where transfers land, so new registrations minus removals is not a reliable measure of the change in registered voters. From October 2025 to September 2026 that difference was −853. Over the same months the number of people on the rolls, active and inactive together, changed by +61,993.

Over time

The charts of removals show the total of the 12 months ending at that month, so one month's batch does not hide the trend. Hover for the figure for that month alone. Each chart has its own scale.

By calendar year

Year	Moved to another county	Address confirmation mailings	Death	Moved out of state	Voter request	Duplicate registration	Board action and other	Conviction or incompetency	All
2026 (9 months)	80,034	48,263	32,392	11,149	2,788	1,783	360	1,187	177,956
2025	97,957	106,154	45,654	9,335	2,031	1,449	956	1,028	264,564
2024	117,870	105,674	43,863	7,801	3,572	3,117	838	1,304	284,039
2023	99,656	110,889	41,487	6,273	631	1,747	932	971	262,586
2022	120,366	127,130	40,243	8,899	749	2,163	1,265	1,245	302,060
2021	110,256	180,464	36,819	6,985	506	2,110	968	993	339,101
2020	119,009	86,319	39,407	10,378	441	1,180	891	419	258,044
2019	82,708	100,715	33,951	12,114	372	879	2,291	864	233,894
2018	105,396	49,808	34,510	14,350	362	1,123	1,774	1,141	208,464
2017	77,030	166,440	36,600	16,253	332	1,608	2,113	983	301,359
2016	130,286	78,209	40,400	19,793	302	2,963	1,555	1,836	275,344
2015	82,644	130,734	32,424	14,866	247	1,142	1,646	1,084	264,787
2014	87,798	106,440	30,093	16,034	303	1,545	1,403	1,528	245,144
2013	72,774	156,012	41,145	21,280	254	3,244	2,098	4,039	300,846
2012	109,990	51,161	32,014	17,650	292	2,666	1,908	3,507	219,188
2011	54,416	122,426	30,675	18,088	172	3,498	2,005	2,331	233,611
2010	61,700	24,753	23,820	14,410	213	3,286	1,499	1,894	131,575

Which voters are removed

Party shares of the removals in the 12 months from October 2025 to September 2026. The last row is the share of all active voters today, for comparison. Different reasons affect different parts of the electorate, so a share above or below the last row says little on its own.

Reason	Total	Democratic	Republican	Unaffiliated	Other
Moved to another county	105,025	54%	19%	25%	2%
Address confirmation mailings	79,450	49%	22%	27%	2%
Death	42,190	57%	29%	12%	1%
Moved out of state	15,946	45%	30%	23%	2%
Voter request	3,337	49%	23%	26%	2%
Duplicate registration	2,057	64%	14%	19%	3%
Board action and other	1,452	40%	11%	43%	6%
Conviction or incompetency	567	61%	11%	23%	5%
All active voters		51%	23%	23%	2%

How to read this

The group names are Skipjack's. "Address confirmation mailings" adds the board's "mail verification (NVRA)" and "confirmation mail" categories, the two whose names refer to mailings. The board's reports do not define its categories.
The removal figures come from the report's statewide summary table. The inactive and confirmation mailing charts add up the county activity table for the whole state.

Which of the State Board's categories each group includes (as the reports spell them)

Moved to another county: COUNTY TRANSFER - OUT; COUNTY TRANSFER-OUT
Address confirmation mailings: MAIL VERIFICATION (NVRA); CONFIRMATION MAIL
Death: DEATH NOTICE
Moved out of state: MOVED OUT OF STATE
Voter request: VOTER REQUEST
Duplicate registration: DUPLICATE
Board action and other: BOARD ACTION; OTHER
Conviction or incompetency: CRIMINAL CONVICTION; MENTAL INCOMPETENCY

The underlying rows are in registration_summary_all.csv and registration_activity_all.csv.