“Ohio is hardly alone in aggressive purges. Georgia is being sued over a similar process.” Read these key sections: Why Getting It Right Is So Hard — Thousands Knocked Off the Rolls — The Future of Voter Purges.
Larry Harmon, 60, hadn’t voted in a while when he drove to the high school in November 2015 to weigh in on a local referendum in Kent, Ohio. But he wasn’t allowed to cast his ballot.
“I served in the military and they tell us, ‘Oh, you’re fighting for freedom.'” he said. “Then you come back and you’re taken off the voter rolls because you didn’t vote for two elections? That doesn’t make sense. I thought that was our right.”
Thanks to six years of inactivity — and a single piece of unanswered mail asking him to confirm his voter registration — Harmon, now a plaintiff in a major voter purge lawsuit before the Supreme Court, was removed from Ohio’s voter rolls. . . .
” — if I don’t use my ‘right to bear arms,’ they don’t stop me from buying a rifle next year because I didn’t buy one this year.”
Click to read the full article by Jane C. Timm of NBC News.