Voldemort couldn't kill Harry as long as he called the Dursleys home. Why didn't he just murder the Dursleys? This would prevent Harry from being able to live there.
Answer
The traditional fanon answer is "there were blood wards protecting the house". It would not, however, have stopped Voldemort (or his Death Eaters) from attacking the Dursleys when they were out (as proved by Umbridge's dementor attack).
That said, Voldemort would have needed to figure out 1) that Harry lived at the Dursleys (which itself might not have been common knowledge), and 2) that the blood protection was tied to that fact (that's assuming it was, which we only have Dumbledore's word on, IIRC, so that might not even be true).
And after the ritual at the end of Harry's fourth year, Voldemort, specifically, had little to worry about from the blood protection anyway.
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