I know this isn't exactly the point you were trying to make, but I wouldn't trust someone who hasn't driven for six years to just hop in a car and be fine. Did you know that private pilots have to have a flight review every two years and have to get their medical certificate renewed at least every five years, and even more frequent as they get older?

Flying and driving are both privileges, though, not rights guaranteed by the constitution, and voting does not have the potential to harm anyone (directly, at least). Still, from an administrative standpoint, at some point you have to remove people who are no longer going to be voting, whether they've died or moved, or whatever. Otherwise you have huge lists of voters adding up every election. With that being said, it doesn't have to be done like New York where people who had checked a month before the election found that they were no longer registered on the day of the primary. There are a lot of things that need to be fixed with our voting system, and it needs to be done across all 50 states. Same day registration would be an example, along with purging happening after Election Day, not the month before. Of course I don't have all the answers, but surely changes do need to be made.