The Supreme Court on Monday approved of Ohio’s voter purge protocol, reversing an appeals court decision against it.
The 5-4 opinion was written by Justice Samuel Alito, with the four liberal justices dissenting.
The Ohio policy allows election officials to begin the purge process once a voter does not vote in a certain period of time. Under the regime, if a voter sits out one federal election, they are sent a notification from the state inquiring whether they still reside at the same address. If the voter does not return the card and sits out the next four years of federal elections, Ohio then removes them from the voter rolls.
Opponents of the policy argued that it violated the National Voter Registration Act’s provision prohibiting the removal of voters “by reason of the person’s failure to vote.”
The conservative justices rejected that argument, with Alito writing that “Ohio removes registrants only if they have failed to vote and have failed to respond to a notice.”
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BREAKING: Supreme Court greenlights Ohio’s voter purge policy in a 5-4 decision
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