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Purge of Non-Eligible Voters to Resume

State elections officials will re-start an effort to check the voter rolls against lists of possible non-citizens before Election Day in November. 

Secretary of State Ken Detzner said Tuesday the state will have a new list that will be better than the last one. 

That's because the state is expecting to use the federal Homeland Security SAVE database.

"We're going to go back and actually rerun our state voter registration list again against the Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles list. And then once we come up with those citizens that might be non-citizens, run it through SAVE again. So it'll be a very deliberate, managed, controlled program." 

Earlier this year, the state sent lists of possible non-citizens to local elections supervisors for pruning. 

But the purge came under fire. Critics said the lists were inaccurate and would keep qualified voters from casting their ballots.