Ohio removes 155,000 from voter rolls ahead of November's presidential election

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46. Behind The Scenes

I was an election inspector in Nebraska for 25 years. The inspector has responsibility for the operation on the polling station.

When you moved you likely sent a change of address to the Post Office so they would forward your mail until you could notify people/businesses of your new address. The election commissioners office would send out to card to each registered voter with do not forward instructions and instead return the card to the election commissioner. They would then tag that registration as challenged. If you would then show up to vote the clerk would inform you that your registration is challenged they would hand you a provisional ballot that would be put in a special envelope and you would have like 4 days to fix the problem and only then would your ballot be counted. The "cure" for an address challenge is to provide two pieces of mail received within the last 90 showing your old address. In all likelihood you could not meet that requirement and the provisional ballot would not be counted. In practice, provisional ballots that are cured are just thrown in a cured box and used only in case of a recount, in which case it would be counted for the race where there was a recount.

Yes, there are some holes where a few bad ballots can get counted but in the scheme of things that catches the easy fraud. The cost of tighter controls is expensive so that is the trade-off. Voter ID will only catch voter impersonation, which is very, very rare. I moved about 3 years ago, which was a year after I got my drivers license renewed. I voted at my new address 2 years ago. Nebraska passed a voter ID law that requires a photo ID with your voting address. The normal practice has been to have your new drivers license reflect your current address and normally that would have been in 2025. Not this year. I had to pay $17.25 to request a new drivers license that will have to be renewed in 1 year. Functionally, this is a poll tax, which the Supreme Court has ruled is illegal.. Now, who do you suppose is most impacted by the change in law. Renters that mostly vote Democrat or owners that mostly vote Republican. That is the primary reason these silly laws get passed. It is the advantage in the election and not a concern with voter fraud that drives this nonsense.