Ohio must allow 'purged' voters to vote, court rules

[OilemFirchen]

Source: Dayton Daily News

A federal appeals court has ordered Ohio to allow voters who had been purged from the election books for not voting over a six-year period to participate in this year’s election.

A divided 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Thursday granted an emergency motion sought by voting-rights groups. The ruling overturned in part an Oct. 10 ruling by a federal judge that said voters hadn’t been illegally purged from Ohio’s rolls.

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The 6th Circuit panel found that there wasn’t an emergency need to block further purges and that it could consider that part of the appeal later.

Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted said “While I disagree with the Court’s decision, it is temporary and narrow in scope. I will not appeal the decision because that would serve as an unnecessary source of contention with an election only five days away.

Read more: https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/ohio-must-allow-purged-voters-vote-court-rules/X8UVz9eyEul83STIVa0UCO/

[nycbos]

1. Woohoo

[busterbrown]

2. Great Fucking News...

Does anyone have the current numbers to share.. How many have been purged?

[groundloop]

3. Now they need to apply this ruling to Georgia

[PeeJ52]

5. They did...

To the absentee ballots!!!

[PeeJ52]

4. Wow...

So this is what democracy looks like... People allowed to vote in Ohio and Georgia... will wonders never cease? Republicans even standing up for birthright citizenship? Cats and dogs living together? There may be hope for this country yet?

[WhiteTara]

15. Tuesday will tell the tale. And BTW

Welcome to DU! You'll have fun election day. Make sure your star is in order because sometimes traffic is so heavy that you can only get on with a star. Any sum will do.

[Judi Lynn]

16. True! That would be confusing to a newcomer. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Good.

[LiberalLovinLug]

7. I wonder if they will drag their feet on actually following through?

[Judi Lynn]

17. They will if they can figure out how to do it without making more trouble for themselves. n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

19. Meh...they'll deal with any fallout AFTER they have secured the seat.

"trouble" is only the nasty fake media trying to cause it all.

[Ohiogal]

8. Didn't this case go to the Supreme Court?

How can it be over turned by a lower court?

[OilemFirchen]

14. Yes. But, per the WSJ:

But even after the ruling, advocacy groups pressed forward on a remaining issue in the case, arguing that notices Ohio sent to residents didn’t adequately explain to previously registered voters that they would be removed from the rolls if they didn’t respond or didn’t vote.

The Sixth Circuit’s majority agreed that the past notices were likely deficient. As a remedy, it said state election boards should count provisional ballots cast by voters who were purged between 2011 and 2015, so long as they continue to live in the same counties where they were previously registered, vote at the correct polling location and haven’t become ineligible because of a felony conviction or mental incapacity.

Ohio changed its notices in 2016. Provisional ballots are set aside until authorities determine if the vote is legal, generally as soon after an election as possible.

Similar interim rules were in place for the 2016 elections and more than 7,500 residents used them to vote, said lawyers for Demos and the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, two groups that sued the state.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/court-clears-ohio-voters-purged-from-rolls-to-cast-ballots-1541022642

[blueinredohio]

9. And this asswipe Husted is running for lieutenant governor. HOPE HE LOSES BIG TIME.

[YOHABLO]

10. Doesn't it always seem that come election time there's always some contention going down in Ohio.

[FakeNoose]

11. Awesome news

Let's blast these assholes into an early retirement!

[bluestarone]

12. GREAT news here!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Bravo!!!!

[JudyM]

18. Yes! Rational minds prevail.

[bluestarone]

20. GREAT news!!!

Now if only the North Dakota injunction would Happen for the Native Americans!!!! THEY have a right to vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Maeve]

21. Hmmm...need more info on what that means

Will they still have to cast provisional ballots or will the purged names will be added as a supplement to the voter lists we get at the polls?

In Ohio, everyone who shows up gets the chance to vote even if it is provisionally and the county board has to sort it out (that includes folks who are told they are in the wrong precinct and folks who have no ID. It's the counting that is going to matter)

[OilemFirchen]

23. As I understand it, they will cast provisional ballots.

The ruling, however, states that the ballots of those purged prior to the 2016 change in the notice will be counted, if they are otherwise legitimate. Prior to this ruling, their provisional ballots would have been tossed automatically. It's unclear to me what happens to the provisional ballots of those purged after 2016, but it appears that their fate is currently working its way through the courts, as a separate appeal.

[BamaRefugee]

22. Not to worry, Komrade! Putin is ready to spin the voting machines backwards!

[ck4829]

25. Indeed

[ck4829]

24. K&R