The Buchanan County Clerk’s Office said it’s only seen around 50 voter sign-ups as it makes a push for the November election.

Clerk Mary Baack-Garvey said her office has been working to encourage people to register to vote. She said since the beginning of the summer voter registration drives have been held at different events around the area.

“We started out at the Sounds of Summer at Felix Street Square on Friday nights and we set up voter registration booths there, and then we did other events like Parties on the Parkway, we were at the Hurlingen Picnic, we did the Mexican Fiesta that St. Patrick’s Church puts on every year and we’ve also been at Chiefs Training Camp every day while that was going on,” Baack-Garvey said.

As of Thursday, she said they have only registered 47 people. She said many people may not even realize that they’re not already signed-up to vote.

“We have a lot of voters that are in the system but they are deleted due to inactivity,” Baack-Garvey said. “The state mandates us to delete voters if their initial voter card comes back deliverable from the post office they go into an inactive status. Then if they miss two general elections in that inactive status the state mandates us to delete them.”

She said if someone hasn’t voted in awhile or if they have changed their address to make sure and double check their voter registration with her office.

“There’s roughly 50,000 voters, roughly 12 to 13,000 are deleted,” Baack-Garvey said.

The deadline to register to vote for the Nov. 8th Presidential Election is by Oct. 12.  For more information visit the Buchanan County Clerk’s Office by CLICKING HERE.