What says Andrew? -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On October 29, 2016 5:13:39 PM EDT, Mitch Haley via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/09/23/voter-roll-purge-ruling.html > > > >"With today's ruling, the court will effectively force us to put voters >back on >the voter rolls who have died or long since moved to another address," >Mr. >Husted said. "This ruling overturns 20 years of Ohio law and practice, >which has >been carried out by the last four secretaries of state, both Democrat >and >Republican. It also reverses a federal court settlement from just two >years ago >that required exactly the opposite action." > >http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/10/ohio_voters_removed_from_rolls.html > >A federal appellate court ruled last month that Ohio's practice of >occasionally >canceling voter registrations after six years of inactivity was >illegal. A U.S. >District Court decision issued Wednesday night mandates that voters >purged since >Jan. 1, 2011 be allowed to cast provisional ballots. > >Ballots will count if the voter lives in the same county as they were >registered >in. > >Secretary of State Jon Husted had asked the court to allow provisional >voting >for voters pulled from the rolls in 2015. Voter rights advocates who >had filed >the lawsuit asked for ballots to be counted for voters removed in 2011, >2013 and >2015. > >http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/ohio-voters-illegally-removed-from-rolls-may-cast-ballots.html > >While a federal law known as the “Motor Voter” law prohibits states >from >removing voter registrations for failing to vote, the law does allow >states to >develop processes for removing voters whose addresses have changed. > >In Ohio, voters who hadn’t voted for two years or who had officially >changed >their addresses were sent notices asking them to confirm or update >their >personal information. If the voter did not respond within four years, >their >registration could be cancelled. > > >> On October 29, 2016 at 4:59 PM Max Dillon via Mercedes ><mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> Ohio had over 500,000 dead, double registered, or non-citizen people >on their >> voter rolls. I think that maybe, just maybe, half a million votes >could sway >> that state from red to blue, that is probably why the ACLU and George >Soros >> are suing to prevent those registrations from being purged. > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com > >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com
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