The Ongoing War Behind Ohio's Extreme Voter Purge

[Ohiogal]

Ohio may have won its Supreme Court battle to implement its extreme “use it or lose it” voter purges. But the war over the purging process rages on.

A new Republican secretary of state — who has introduced new measures that, in theory, could help prevent eligible voters from losing their ballot access — is catching heat for continuing with his predecessor’s purge program. The program begins the process for removal based on a person sitting out a certain number of elections.

“Ohio is looking at purging about a half million from the voter rolls this year alone which is a large percentage of Ohio’s population,” Jen Miller, the executive director of Ohio’s League of Women Voters told TPM.

LWV and other voting rights group are holding a press conference Thursday calling for Secretary of State Frank LaRose to stop or delay a purge set to occur next month.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ohio-voter-purge-use-it-or-lose-it

********** That's one of the reasons Republicans have a stranglehold on our state .... If you don't like how certain people vote, just purge 'em from the rolls ........

[Dagstead Bumwood]

1. Cheating is all they have.

Voter purges, dark money, gerrymandering, just downright cheating. Any election held on the up-and-up is an election they'll lose, and they know it, and they're scared to death of it. I fear this state's chances of remaining purple are gone with that insipid DeWine and the rest of the Rethugs running roughshod over us.