Ohio resident Joseph Helle registered to vote before he left for tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. When he returned in 2011 he had been removed from the voting rolls because he hadn't voted while overseas. Helle, now the mayor of Oak Harbor, Ohio, is one of thousands of Ohio residents with similar stories.
Ohio’s Secretary of State says the state’s actions are necessary to ensure election security. A federal appeals court disagreed last year and ordered that 7,515 ballots cast by voters whose names had been removed should be counted. Trump disagrees with the ruling.
The Supreme Court will issue its ruling in June. Given the views of Gorsuch and the other four conservatives, I anticipate the ruling will favor purging the Ohio rolls, denying people their right to vote. I hope I’m wrong.
For more facts on this case, see Julie Carr Smyth and Mark Sherman, Ohio moves to toss inactive voters from rolls goes to court,” Morning Call, (Jan. 6, 2018), p. 21.
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