{"id":12519,"date":"2018-06-11T15:52:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T19:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/supreme-court-upholds-ohio-law-facilitating-voter-purges\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T15:52:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T19:52:28","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-ohio-law-facilitating-voter-purges","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/supreme-court-upholds-ohio-law-facilitating-voter-purges\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Upholds Ohio Law Facilitating Voter Purges"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12519","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"The state's statute assumes that people who don't vote, whatever their reason, have moved and purges them from the voter rolls; in upholding it, the high court \"ignores the history of voter suppression\" connected with such purges across the country, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a scathing dissent.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":[166,169,2066],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"A sharply divided Supreme Court dealt another blow to voting rights this morning, upholding an Ohio law that allows state officials to lift the registration of voters who don\u2019t cast ballots in a series of elections.\r\n\r\nA 5-4 majority of the justices said Ohio is within its rights under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) in mailing a notice to voters who fail to vote over a two-year period, inquiring if they have moved and warning them that failure to respond to the notice and continued non-voting could trigger their removal from the voter rolls.\r\n\r\nOhioans who don\u2019t answer the notice and then don\u2019t vote in two subsequent federal elections are purged.\r\n\r\nJustice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority that the state properly uses failure to vote only as <em>preuve<\/em> that a voter may have changed his\/her address; the notice is tailored to confirm or upend that possibility, he asserted.\r\n\r\nBut Common Cause and other challengers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/17pdf\/16-980_f2q3.pdf\"><em>Husted v. A. Phillip Randolph Institute<\/em> <\/a>argued that because failure to vote triggers the notice, the state law violates part of another federal law, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which says states may not purge voters solely because they have not voted. HAVA was passed after the Voter Registration Act and included several provisions aimed at countering state efforts to make registration and voting more difficult.\r\n\r\nThe majority opinion \u201centirely ignores the history of voter suppression against which the NVRA was enacted and upholds a program that appears to further the very disenfranchisement of minority and low-income voters that Congress set out to eradicate,\u201d Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent. \u201cStates, though, need not choose to be so unwise.\u00a0 Our democracy rests on the ability of all individuals, regardless of race, income, or status, to exercise their right to vote.\u00a0 The majority of States have found ways to maintain accurate voter rolls without initiating removal processes based solely on an individual\u2019s failure to vote.\u201d\r\n\r\nSotomayor\u2019s opinion reads like a call to arms for voting rights advocates, who have been busy since the high court\u2019s 2013 decision in <em>Comt\u00e9 de Shelby c. Holder <\/em>effectively gutted key provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act. The majority\u2019s opinion in <em>Comt\u00e9 de Shelby<\/em> triggered a barrage of state efforts to impose voter identification requirements and reduce opportunities to register.\r\n\r\n\u201cEvery American deserves the chance to make their voice heard in our elections without fear of election officials targeting them because of their voting history,\u201d said\u00a0Common Cause president Karen Hobert Flynn. \u201cBut regardless of how the Court dressed up today\u2019s ruling, the narrow majority just took another hostile step against the right to vote. The laws in most states are more protective of infrequent voters than the one the Court approved in Ohio. Still, many partisan officials are doubtless already studying this morning\u2019s decision as a blueprint for disenfranchising political opponents. And we are prepared to fight back against further erosions to the right to vote.\"\r\n\r\n\u201cThe\u00a0<em>Husted\u00a0<\/em>decision joins a sad lineup of decisions from the Roberts Court \u2013 from\u00a0<em>Citoyens Unis<\/em>\u00a0\u00e0\u00a0<em>Comt\u00e9 de Shelby<\/em>\u00a0- that have done incredible damage to our democracy, by stripping protections from marginalized communities and vastly increasing the political power of the few at the expense of the of those who are severely underrepresented,\u201c Hobert Flynn\u00a0added. \u201cHistory will not look kindly on this decision\u2019s majority.\u201d\r\n\r\n###"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court Upholds Ohio Law Facilitating Voter Purges - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/supreme-court-upholds-ohio-law-facilitating-voter-purges\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court Upholds Ohio Law Facilitating Voter Purges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/supreme-court-upholds-ohio-law-facilitating-voter-purges\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/supreme-court-upholds-ohio-law-facilitating-voter-purges\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/supreme-court-upholds-ohio-law-facilitating-voter-purges\/\",\"name\":\"Supreme Court Upholds Ohio Law Facilitating Voter Purges - 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