SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “The U.S. Supreme Court will consider giving states more freedom to rid their voter rolls of people who haven’t cast ballots in a while.
Agreeing to hear an appeal by Ohio, the justices said they’ll consider reinstating a purging technique used by the state before a federal appeals court barred the practice. The appeals court ruling let some 7,500 state residents cast ballots in the 2016 election, even though they’d previously been removed from the list of eligible voters.
Under the disputed procedure, Ohio mailed notices to people who hadn’t voted in two years, asking them to confirm that they still lived at that address. If someone didn’t respond and then didn’t vote during the next four years, the state would remove the person.”
-Greg Stohr, “Voter-Purge Effort by Ohio Gets U.S. Supreme Court Review,” Bloomberg, May 30, 2017 6:34am