Ireland Just Deleted 300,000 Voters From Its Electoral Register And That’s Apparently a Good Thing

Ireland’s electoral system is getting what might be the biggest database cleanup in its history, after officials confirmed that roughly 300,000 names have been removed from the country’s voter register over the past two years.

According to reporting from the Irish Examiner, the cleanup is part of a broader effort to modernize a system that has been criticized for years as fragmented, outdated, and full of duplicate or inaccurate entries.