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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,021 posts)
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 01:47 PM Aug 2017

Trump Administration Stirs Alarm Over 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.

"I've been paying my taxes, paying my property taxes, registering my car," he said. "All the data was there for (election officials) to know that I was there."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-stirs-alarm-over-voter-purges/ar-AApwdeb?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

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Trump Administration Stirs Alarm Over Voter Purges (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2017 OP
If you don't vote for awhile, you get taken off the rolls. CrispyQ Aug 2017 #1
Is Larry Harmon a Trump voter? Not Ruth Aug 2017 #2

CrispyQ

(36,478 posts)
1. If you don't vote for awhile, you get taken off the rolls.
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 02:05 PM
Aug 2017

It's not unreasonable to take people off the rolls who haven't voted in two elections.They sent him a card to confirm his registration & he didn't bother to send it back. If you've been paying your taxes & registering your car why not stay registered to vote, too? In Colorado we can do it at the DMV and online and county offices. Citizens have a responsibility in this process, too. Pay attention!

on edit: This case doesn't seem to be the type of purge that I'm alarmed about.

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