{"id":379032,"date":"2026-10-21T23:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379032\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:58:34","slug":"aoc-launching-search-for-as-many-as-80k-inactive-nyc-voters-to-cast-ballots-ahead-of-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379032\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC launching search for as many as 80K ‘inactive’ NYC voters to cast ballots ahead of midterm elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

AOC wants to bring missing voters back to life!<\/p>\n

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <\/a>is urging her activist followers to help her find as many as 80,000 \u201cinactive\u201d city voters so they can cast ballots in the upcoming elections to support Democrats.<\/p>\n

A voter\u2019s registration status automatically changes to inactive if the voter either does not vote in two successive federal elections or fails to respond to a notice from the Board of Elections about an address change.<\/p>\n

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks to supporters of Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed during a rally and canvass launch at Henry Ford College on Oct. 16, 2026, in Rochester, Mich. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThese voters are at risk of being purged from the voter file. In New York City alone, there are over 80,000 inactive voters,\u201d Team AOC said in a note to supporters about the \u201cNew York City edition\u201d of her \u201cProject Reactivation\u201d program.<\/p>\n

The city BOE said there are 446,479 \u201cinactive\u201d voters on the city\u2019s voting rolls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis does not prevent you from voting. Your name will still appear in the poll pads and you could still vote on the machines,\u201d said BOE spokesman Vincent Ignizio.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, if you are in inactive status and you miss two successive federal elections, the law says that you are then removed from the rolls and you would have to re-register to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Voters use privacy booths at a voting place for the mayor of New York City at the Museum of the Moving Image in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York on Oct. 25, 2025. Brigitte Stelzer<\/p>\n

AOC\u2019s campaign staff is holding a training session on Monday on how to mobilize \u201cthe most unlikely voters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stakes are too damn high,\u201d said the AOC email blast, which was obtained by the Post. \u201cEvery Democrat\u2019s vote must be counted so we are calling on you to join us for a training in New York City on how YOU can help inactive voters protect their right to vote and update their registration status from inactive to active.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pathway to win back the House is increasingly proving to be through New York State.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city BOE said there are 446,479 \u201cinactive\u201d voters on the city\u2019s voting rolls. mobilize.us<\/p>\n

The move comes as AOC is feeling out a 2028 run<\/a> for president or US Senate, recently embarking on an upstate tour to Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton and Ithaca.<\/p>\n

Her upstate trip included launching the \u201cinactive voter training\u201d program.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez, who represents parts of Queens and The Bronx, is now focusing on finding inactive voters on her her home turf with Project Reactivation NYC.<\/p>\n

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Gov. Kathy Hochul arrive for a roundtable on data centers at Fishkill Farms on Oct. 6, 2026, in Hopewell Junction, New York. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Voting experts said it will be tough sledding because many or even a majority of the people on the inactive voting list are no longer local \u2014 or no longer with us.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn most cases they moved or they died,\u201d said Jerry Skirnik, senior consultant with Engage Voters US, which maintains voter databases and sells them to clients.<\/p>\n

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He said the AOC effort will likely reengage a small number of voters.<\/p>\n

Skurnik said many candidates don\u2019t buy inactive voting lists because they aren\u2019t are reliable, easily reachable and it\u2019s not worth the expense.<\/p>\n

The BOE\u2019s Ignizio said the number of inactive voters remains about the same each year, with some voters being taken off the list with evidence that they moved or died, while others are added to the inactive list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AOC wants to bring missing voters back to life! Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is urging her activist followers to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[878,57,13305,46937,9,24,11,10,87,58,4727],"class_list":["post-379032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-metro","tag-midterm-elections","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}