Conservative Justices Uphold Ohio’s Voter Purge System

Conservative Justices Uphold Ohio’s Voter Purge System

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 It's a means of removing voter registrations that the state feels are outdated from its rolls — forcing someone to have to register once again to vote

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