U.S. Supreme Court Will Clarify Federal Law on When Election Officials May Remove Voters from Registration Rolls for Persistent Failure to Vote

On May 30, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Ohio’s appeal in Husted v A. Philip Randolph Institute, 16-980. The issue is how to interpret the federal law that forbids states from removing voters from the rolls unless they skip two federal elections in a row, and don’t respond to a state questionaire.

Ohio sends the questionaire after a voter has missed voting for a period of two years. The Sixth Circuit had ruled that Ohio’s interpretation of the federal law is erroneous.


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U.S. Supreme Court Will Clarify Federal Law on When Election Officials May Remove Voters from Registration Rolls for Persistent Failure to Vote — 1 Comment

  1. “If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.” Mark Twain

    Aug 19, 2016 Electoral College and the National Archives

    Every four years the Office of the Federal Register — part of the National Archives and Records Administration — administers the Electoral College. The Office of the Federal Register informs the governments of the 50 states and the District of Columbia what is required to fulfill their duty under the Constitution to elect the President and Vice President of the United States. This video explains how the Electoral College works and the Office of the Federal Register’s role in collecting the documentation Congress needs to count the Electoral College.

    https://youtu.be/caRt0eHA0Pk

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