NATCHEZ — The Adams County voter rolls are in good shape, despite what some may say, election commissioners said Monday.

At Monday’s county supervisors meeting, resident Eva Dunkley said she was concerned that nearly 3,000 names have been removed from the voter registration rolls.

Dunkley said her son was one of those who was “purged” from the rolls.

“This is going to affect every district,” she said, addressing the supervisors. “It is going to be chaos when election time comes and there are people not on the rolls.”

Supervisors President Darryl Grennell said the board would look into the situation.

The list of nearly 3,000 comes from an accumulation over the past roughly seven years of purging, Elections Commission President Larry Gardner said.

Voters who die or move are purged, Gardner said. And even if a voter’s name is on the “purged” list, he might also be on the active voters list, Gardner said.

“If a woman gets married and changes her name, or if a person moves and re-registers (to vote), we have to get rid of duplicates,” he said.

The commission goes through a rigid process of trying to get in touch with a voter before purging him from the rolls, Gardner said.

“Then, we all vote on it,” Gardner said. “We don’t arbitrarily take someone off the active rolls.”

Gardner encouraged voters to check with the circuit clerk’s office well before Election Day to see if they were on the active voter rolls.

If a voter is purged and not on the active rolls, he can vote by filling out an affidavit ballot. That will put him back on the active rolls.

Voters absolutely must vote in their precincts, Gardner said. If they don’t, even an affidavit ballot won’t count.

In other business, the board of supervisors voted after coming out of executive session to take steps to adopt a litter ordinance, Grennell said. The state has a litter ordinance, but the county had to have one to implement a reward system for those who help convict those who litter, he said.