Something I drew for this year! I’m going to reblog this every two weeks until November because I really do think that this is important.
Here’s a reminder again! Also, because of the supreme court ruling along party lines to uphold voter registration purges in Ohio, take this also as a reminder to check your registration status!
Ohio uses two methods to keep track of any changes. The first is to double-check voter addresses against the U.S. Postal Service’s change-of-address database. If there’s a match, the state then mails a notice to the original residence and strikes the voter from the rolls if they don’t reply or cast a ballot within four years.
Federal election laws are designed to allow this method, and most states use some form of it. But Ohio takes it a step further. To find ineligible voters who didn’t tell the Postal Service that they moved, the state also uses what it calls the “Supplemental Process”: Election officials mail notices to voters who have gone two years without casting a ballot, changing their voter registration, or otherwise engaging in what the state calls “voter activity.” If the voter doesn’t mail back the notice and doesn’t cast a ballot for the next four years, he or she is stricken from the rolls.
And as of June 2018, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, has decided that this does not violate the National Voter Registration Act. So laws similar to this might spread to other states.
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