The Supreme Court is to decide if states can kick you off registration rolls if you don’t vote multiple times. Ballot Access News’ Richard Winger had the following post:
On May 30, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Ohio’s appeal in Husted v A. Philip Randolph Institute, 16-980. The issue is how to interpret the federal law that forbids states from removing voters from the rolls unless they skip two federal elections in a row, and don’t respond to a state questionaire. Ohio sends the questionaire after a voter has missed voting for a period of two years. The Sixth Circuit had ruled that Ohio’s interpretation of the federal law is erroneous.
According to ScotusBlog, the case Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute will decide:
Whether 52 U.S.C. § 20507 permits Ohio’s list-maintenance process, which uses a registered voter’s voter inactivity as a reason to send a confirmation notice to that voter under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
And according to a post from ScotusBlog:
Today’s lone grant came in Husted v. A. Phillip Randolph Institute, in which the court will weigh in on the interplay between federal voting laws and states’ efforts to maintain voter registration lists. When a registered voter in Ohio does not vote during a two-year period, the state sends her a confirmation notice. If the voter does not respond to that notice and does not vote over the next four years, Ohio removes her from the list of registered voters and requires her to register again. APRI, a labor and civil rights group, filed this lawsuit against Ohio’s secretary of state, alleging that this process violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which bars states from removing someone from the voter registration list for not voting and sets out a process for states to remove voters who have moved away.
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