ATLANTA - Nearly 471,000 Georgia voter registrations were canceled by Friday, state officials confirmed to FOX 5.

The Secretary of State's review of the voter rolls focused on people who moved or have not voted in recent elections.

What they're saying:

"People perish, move in the state of the state, or just across the street," Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said last month "We want make sure we have accurate list."

The state election director said they tried reaching out to each of the voters in question.

"Those people were on a 40-day clock which ran out over the past couple of days," State Election Director Blake Evans said. "And so at this point, those records for the people who did not respond to that mailer have been sent to cancel status."

What we know:

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