The US Supreme Court on Monday upheld Ohio's system for purging voters from the rolls.
The Court split 5-4 along partisan lines, with the five conservative-leaning justices, in a majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, upholding the system and the four liberal-leaning justices opposing it. The ruling focused in large part on technical interpretations of federal voting laws, although the argument underlying Ohio's system is, in fact, a much bigger one about voter suppression.
So what is Ohio's voter purge system? It's a means of removing voter registrations that the state feels are outdated from its rolls — forcing someone to have to register once again to vote
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