Ohio just won a major victory over a lawsuit brought by several Democrat groups, including the ACLU, in the latest Supreme Court Ruling.
Here’s the lowdown:
CNBC – In a 5-4 decision with the court’s conservatives in the majority, the justices overturned a lower court ruling that Ohio’s policy violated the National Voter Registration Act, a 1993 federal law that forbids removing voters from registration lists for failing to vote. The Republican-governed state argued that the policy was needed to keep voting rolls current, clearing out people who have moved away or died.
The court’s four liberal justices dissented from the decision.
Voters purged from registration rolls, represented by liberal advocacy group Demos along with the American Civil Liberties Union, sued Ohio Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted in 2016 to end the policy.
The challengers said Ohio’s policy illegally erased thousands of voters from registration rolls in 2015 alone and disproportionately impacted racial minorities and poor people who tend to back Democratic candidates.
Under Ohio’s policy, if registered voters miss voting for two years, they are sent registration confirmation notices. If they do not respond and do not vote over the following four years, they are removed from the rolls.
So in other words, if they don’t vote over six years they are removed from the voting rolls. I think that’s quite reasonable, as a lot tends to happen in the average person’s life over six years.
It sounds to me that Ohio is simply trying to ensure the accuracy of its voting rolls to ensure the system isn’t abused.
Here’s how they voted:
5-4: #SCOTUS upholds Ohio voter purge law. Alito delivered opinion of Court with Roberts Kennedy Thomas & Gorsuch. Breyer filed dissent with Ginsburg Sotomayor & Kagan joining. https://t.co/gUvr4RdUJC https://t.co/GCbVLnC4uB
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 11, 2018
And here’s the court opinion:
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