ballot. far from it, in fact. just last week the group black voters matter said government officials told about 40 black senior citizens in georgia to get off of a bus that was taking them to do their early voting. the county administrator told the atlanta journal-constitution they considered the trip a political activity, which is against the rules at county-sponsored events. meanwhile, a new state policy means thousands of georgians may only discover they are no long er registered to vote, no longer on the rolls, when they arrive at the polls to vote. we have a report on this tonight from nbc news correspondent rehema ellis. reporter: marsha appling nunez was showing her college students how to register to vote online when she got a rude awakening. after casting ballots in elections since she was 18, she discovered she was no longer registered. you were in disbelief. yeah. definitely embarrassed. reporter: how did this happen?