Here.  New Orleans has 17 percent fewer registered voters today than the last time Louisiana held a primary to elect a governor.

The majority of those 50,000 voters came off the New Orleans rolls in
December during the first extensive voter purge since Hurricane
Katrina.

For the congressional election last November, 274,000 New
Orleanians could have cast a ballot, according to secretary of state
figures. That’s despite the fact that the 2010 census now tells us there were only 270,614 adults living in New Orleans at the time.

That
means New Orleans had a whopping 101 percent voter registration. Today,
it’s at a more historically, and logically, reasonable 85 percent.

St.
Bernard Parish likewise had astronomically high numbers, with 102
percent of its adults registered to vote for the 2010 midterm
congressional election. The 2010 census listed 26,720 adults in St.
Bernard, while the secretary of state had about 27,300 registered voters
for that Nov. 2 election.

Despite now having 42 percent fewer
voters than it did for the last pre-Katrina gubernatorial primary in
2003, current numbers still place St. Bernard quite high at 93 percent.

Nationally,
about 65 percent of adults were registered to vote for the November
election, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics.

In the
metro area, New Orleans and St. Bernard lost the most voters and were
the major anomalies since the 2007 election. St. Charles, St. John and
St. Tammany parishes showed slight increases in the number of registered
voters, along with the state as a whole, and other parishes such as
Jefferson had slight decreases.

Because of inflated registrar of
voter rolls in New Orleans and St. Bernard since Katrina, voter turnout
figures there have been absurdly inaccurate.

The secretary of
state listed turnout in New Orleans at a measly 27 percent for the 2007
gubernatorial primary, whereas the last pre-Katrina gubernatorial
primary in 2003 had 42 percent turnout.