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McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 06:21 PM Oct 2019

Ultimate Poll Tax: OHIO Tries to Purge 20,000 Dems for Not Voting in the Future

Here is the link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/politics/ohio-voter-purge.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

And here is the quote:

In one case, a data mistake from an outside firm meant a large number of people’s names were set to be knocked off. Ohio’s 88 counties each used a different process of removing people from the rolls, an immediate source of headaches for officials trying to compile a statewide list.

And voting rights groups found an unexplained tranche — around 20,000 people — who had been marked to be purged because of inactivity in future election cycles, but were actually active voters in previous Ohio elections. These voters were in Franklin County, a Democratic stronghold in the state.


OMG! Now Democrats have to vote in the future in order to vote in the present??? But what if we do not have time travel technology? Is this supposed to be some kind of poll tax on steroids?

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