U.S. Supreme Court Backs States’ Voter-Purge Efforts
- Court votes 5-4 to uphold Ohio procedure for removing voters
- Ohio system could become model for other GOP-controlled states
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The U.S. Supreme Court gave states more power to purge their voting databases of people who haven’t cast ballots recently, upholding an Ohio system that could become a model for other Republican-controlled states.
The justices, voting 5-4 along ideological lines, said the system was a legitimate effort to identify people who have moved away and didn’t illegally penalize people for not voting.