Ohio Set To Remove More Than 200,000 People From Its Voter Rolls

[UCmeNdc]

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) published a list of 235,000 voters at risk of losing their registrations in August but soon discovered there were errors and corrected them. The following month, in August, voting rights groups said they identified an additional 4,000 people who were incorrectly added to the list. The Columbus Dispatch also reported more than 1,600 people who were erroneously added because of a technical error.



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ohio-voter-purge_n_5d713ebce4b0a606aa4f3df2

[elocs]

1. If there is no court remedy then instead of whining about it we need to re-register them.

And there are 14 months to get it done.

[zeusdogmom]

5. Yes

[GoCubsGo]

8. Yes. All states have a place to check regisration.

Go here, where you can also find your polling place:
https://www.headcount.org/verify-voter-registration/

One can also check at vote.org: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

[Botany]

3. Ohio has more democrats than republicans (or used to) but this state is run like a ...

... republican fiefdom.

[Ohiogal]

15. 100% correct, Botany.

[Botany]

17. I might be and probably am down right nuts but the 2018 vote in OH did not pass my smell test

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Because for it to be accurate 250,000 people had to have voted for a liberal democrat
(Brown) to be senator but then turn around and vote for conservative republicans for Gov.,
A.G., and Sec. of State.

BTW in 2016 then Sec. of State Jon Husted took part in Kris Kobach's, "Interstate Cross
Check" program that was supposed to stop a person from voting twice across state lines
(something that does not happen) but in reality stripped millions of black people from
the right to vote and or have that voted counted.

"Interstate Cross Check" alone was more than enough to swing the election to Trump.

I swear after my mom passes I am the hell out of Ohio.

[3Hotdogs]

4. Excellent opportunity for Dems. Volunteers needed.

Visit people on the list. Show them their name on the list and give them a registration form, along with the quote:

"Republicans don't want you to vote. But we do."

[SHRED]

9. Excellent idea

[tblue37]

11. +a brazillion! nt

[FakeNoose]

14. When names get dropped from the voter registration list

... it's often because the person moved and has already registered in their new location. Or maybe the person died, or some another good reason. It's not that the Ohio government doesn't want them to vote.

This is every state's lazy way of cleaning up their incorrect and/or duplicate records. They've cross-checked the voter registration data against the drivers license data, and wherever they find a discrepancy they delete the voter registration. They assume the drivers license is the most recent information because it gets updated every 4 or 5 years, while voter registration may never get updated.

If your voter registration is in the name of Bob Jones and your drivers license says Robert Jones with same address, same date of birth - which one will they delete? The voter registration. It affects Republicans as well as Democrats with one proviso. City-dwellers are more likely to move or change their address more frequently, and are also more likely to vote D. So that's why it seems like the Democratic voters have been targeted.

Our message should be that it's easy to check online to make sure we're still registered to vote. And if our name has been dropped (for whatever reason) it's easy to re-register online. The next time we go to vote, some might be asked to show a photo ID and there are many acceptable ways for people who don't want to show a drivers license ID. I always have my US passport handy in case I'm asked for ID.

[Lonestarblue]

6. Voting is a right guaranteed by the Constitution.

It cannot be taken away from anyone who is a citizen (I have long wondered how it is legal to take the right to vote from those in jail). Once registered, no one should be allowed to remove your name for not voting for a couple of elections. You are still a citizen, and your right cannot be taken away for that purpose. Why are judges upholding the Republicans’ right to deny a citizen their guaranteed right to vote!

[FBaggins]

10. That guarantee is not absolute

Not only is there the normal governmental interest exception implied (the same justification that allows for some restrictions on speech, etc.), it’s also clear in the same amendment that guarantees the vote that states can remove the right for criminal behavior (14A sec. 2).


Moreover... there’s a reason that the objection is just around the edges. The vast majority of these scenarios are not removing the right to vote. They’re canceling a no-longer-valid registration. You move from OH to KY and register there... and eventually OH is going to cancel your registration.

[aggiesal]

12. Republicans claim ...

that they are scrubbing voter rolls of people who have died or
moved out of the area, which sounds proper.
But that’s not how they are implementing it.

They pass laws that people in prison shouldn’t be allowed to
vote, which I don’t agree with unless it is capital murder. But
once you’ve completed your sentence, you should have your
voting rights restore, but not all state allow that.

To scrub rolls even further, if your name is similar to a dead
person, or an inmate, well your name gets added to the scrub
list.

Since not everyone vote in all elections, they don’t even notice
that they’ve been scrubbed from the voting rolls.

[FiveGoodMen]

18. Sadly, no one cares about the constitution these days

[uponit7771]

7. THIS !!! ... is even more important than climate change, gun control .. whatever. There's no way

... we can effect those aforementioned issues if we can't vote

[rainin]

13. Could every person wrongly removed sue the state?

[lonely bird]

16. A simple question

The states have computers. Why are names ever removed? If someone doesn’t vote for a few years, so what? Nothing, repeat, NOTHING is damaged by not “purging” names. If any state can prove that voting fraud, not election fraud as that is what Republicans do, has occurred then by all means purge but do it in a manner that PROTECTS the right to vote.