Swordsmyth
08-09-2017, 12:29 AM
Under the administration of President Barack Obama, the U.S. Department of Justice backed civil rights groups’ legal challenge of Ohio’s decision to remove thousands of inactive voters from voter rolls.
But under the administration of President Donald Trump, the department has switched sides in the case.
Justice Department attorneys filed a 61-page brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday siding with Ohio’s decision to purge the inactive voters, flipping the government’s position months before the nation’s high court is to take up the case.
The case, Husted v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, focuses on the state’s supplemental process, which cancels voter registrations even if the voter in question has not moved and is still eligible to vote.
Here’s how it works: Voters who have not cast a ballot in two years are mailed a notice asking that they confirm their registration. If the voters do not respond and do not cast a ballot in the four years after that, they’re automatically removed from the rolls.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s office has removed 465,000 deceased voters and 1.3 million duplicate registrations from Ohio’s voter rolls in recent years.
More at: http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170808/us-switches-sides-in-supreme-court-case-to-back-ohios-voter-purge
But under the administration of President Donald Trump, the department has switched sides in the case.
Justice Department attorneys filed a 61-page brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday siding with Ohio’s decision to purge the inactive voters, flipping the government’s position months before the nation’s high court is to take up the case.
The case, Husted v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, focuses on the state’s supplemental process, which cancels voter registrations even if the voter in question has not moved and is still eligible to vote.
Here’s how it works: Voters who have not cast a ballot in two years are mailed a notice asking that they confirm their registration. If the voters do not respond and do not cast a ballot in the four years after that, they’re automatically removed from the rolls.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s office has removed 465,000 deceased voters and 1.3 million duplicate registrations from Ohio’s voter rolls in recent years.
More at: http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170808/us-switches-sides-in-supreme-court-case-to-back-ohios-voter-purge