WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether Ohio wrongfully purged eligible voters from the state’s registration list.
The justices on Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal from state officials defending the process against challengers who say it’s illegal.
Civil liberties groups had challenged the state’s program for removing thousands of people from voter rolls based on their failure to vote in recent elections. A federal appeals court ruled last year that the process violates the National Voter Registration Act.
Ohio officials argue that the process used by Ohio for more than 20 years is constitutional and fully complies with state and federal laws.
Groups challenging the practice said Ohio was unfairly disenfranchising eligible Ohio voters.
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Assorted voting rights cases will be clogging the SCOTUS docket for the next several years, I would surmise.
Republicans never tire of disenfranchising American voters, and civil liberties groups are not shy about challenging the GOP.
Gorsuch etc: OH voting laws should be the template for all other states to follow.
I have been voting since 1966, every election, even those when I was stationed overseas. I don’t have a problem removing “voters” who have skipped 2 national elections in a row. Anything less than that I’d be thinking a purge, but if you were so lazy to skip that many votes you deserve to be required to reregister.
But that isn’t what actually happened in Ohio—so it’s a straw man argument.
Is Ohio one of the states with a no-notification purge? Because that’s the part that’s particularly aimed against the casual voter. Someone arrives at the polling place all ready to vote, and that’s when they find out they’re not registered.