The state is being sued over the way Secretary of State Jon Husted for the way he’s purging voters from Ohio’s voter rolls.Listen to the story here.
The American Civil Liberties Union’s Freda Levinson says Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted is using illegal criteria to purge voters.
“Under federal law, it is not permissible to cancel a voter for exercising their right not to vote.”
Levinson says voters can be removed if they have moved or died but not because they haven’t voted. But Husted says he’s removing voters through a court approved process.
“This, to me, falls under the category of frivolous election year lawsuits that waste taxpayer time and money.”
Husted says 1.3 million duplicate voters were removed. 465,000 dead voters were removed too. He says there were some counties with more registered voters than eligible voters.
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