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When Voter Registration Purges Cross the Line from Standard Practice into Suppression

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024

When citizens move or die, voter registration lists need to be updated as part of routine list hygiene. But when lists are aggressively purged, particularly close to an election, it crosses the line into voter suppression.

Have You Been Purged? States Have Stepped Up Removals of Inactive Voters – Sometimes for Partisan Advantage. It’s Time to Check Your Registration

March 27, 2024March 27, 2024

Maintenance of voter registration lists is a standard practice, to remove voters who’ve died, moved, or are no longer eligible. But some hyper-partisan legislatures and state officials have weaponized the process. If you’ve moved or skipped voting in a recent election, your voter registration may no longer be valid.

Ohio’s Legislative Majority Continues Quest to Lock Down Power, Proposing Bans for Ranked Choice Voting and Ending Open Primaries

October 4, 2023December 29, 2023

After ignoring Ohio’s constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering and attempting to make it harder to pass citizen ballot initiatives, the majority in the Ohio legislature is now attempting to ban ranked choice voting and close party primaries.

Ohio Voters Defeat Republican Effort to Raise Citizen Ballot Initiative Passage to 60% in Pro-Voter Victory

August 9, 2023December 30, 2023

With an unofficial 57% to 43% margin, Ohio voters soundly defeated the effort by the Republican-majority legislature to raise the threshold for passage of citizen ballot initiatives. Issue one would have also required minimum numbers of qualifying signatures in 88 counties rather than the current 44.