Supreme Court rules in favor of Ohio 'voter purge'

[CFM]

Which legal votes have struck from the voting rolls?

PoliTalker is one of those that thinks someone choosing not to take an action has been denied a right to it.

[Ralph]

Any actions taken which strike legal voters from the rolls are actions against democracy.

Republicans fool themselves into believing this helps eliminate voter fraud but the fraud is what they believe. This is really done to get Republicans, whom would have lost in a larger turn-out, elected.

This is the epitome of party over country.

Reality check: We the People..i.e., the United States of America chose to establish a Republic based upon the rule of law instead of a Democracy based upon the utopian dream of seeking Social Justice for all...why? Because anyone with the least bit of cognition toward logic and reason realizes that the only method to achieve total equality of any type of social justice is to remove the "individual" freedom of FREE WILL. Democracies historically fail because Mobs (collectively) work on emotion instead of rationality. See the Federalist Papers (the companion documents that justified the ratification of the United States Constitution) Number 10 explaining with no ambiguity whatsoever why the founders of this FREE NATION chose Republicanism over Social Democracy with a guarantee of such at all levels of government in Article 4 Section 4 Clause 1.

Example: Why elect Representatives and send them to the power base of your government and then bitch about the RULE OF LAW established through representative proxy? If you don't like the laws....fire the assholes who make them and hire those that best represents your idealism. That is the method a free nation based upon the rule of law functions, not through social anarchy seeking social justice via violence and destruction.

For over a century individuals who were female, non white or property owners were not allowed to vote. The Constitution "evolved" when The People's social more's evolved. Truth never evolves but people do. The system works, as it was a MAJORITY through representation that has granted all the civil rights (to include the right to vote) to all females, non property owners and minorities. Name one civil right that did not come through THE RULE OF LAW. Just one. Even the Revolutions (both the initial revolution for independence and the civil war) were eventually decided via the RULE OF LAW and legal contract....not the violence that preceded the rational solutions and evolution of THE PEOPLES social conscience. If not why the amendments to the Constitution through super majority ratification of THE PEOPLE and the signatory contract between Great Britain and the newly created United States of America that officially announced its independence to the world via the Rule of Law (Treaty of Paris 1783)?

You do not make laws based upon feelings and emotion......you legislate law that attempts to be equally applied to everyone regardless of social position and wealth. It is my opinion that more anarchy exists today than that which justified the first revolution (taxation void of representation) and the States Rights to make their own laws based upon the will of the people that does not conflict with the standard to all rule of law in this nation The United States Constitution (the civil war). States rights have all but vanished through the acts of ignorance via those who propagate the false premise that this nation is a DEMOCRACY. All the states and their people are not equal....they never have been and never will be, each state must have individuality in order to deal with the reality that surrounds them in their immediate geographical location and social requirements...all the states have their own unique needs, there can never be a cookie cutter act of legislation that magically makes everyone's problems disappear all at once....UNLESS you live under the thumb of despotism and have your free will removed through threat and imprisonment.

[christiefan915]

No, it is not voter suppression. In no way is anyone prevented from voting or registering to vote. Voting is a privilege. As a voter we are responsible for maintaining our records. It is not hard. In the case of Ohio it is so very simple. If you are too stupid to either vote or confirm your registration, then that is on you as the voter.

You're simply parroting very tired old Dem talking points. It is pure nonsense to think we should never clean up the voter rolls.

You truly are deluded: " It is pure nonsense to think we should never clean up the voter rolls."

NOBODY said the rolls shouldn't be cleared; the issue is about a time ultimatum for voters who may not vote in every election.There's nothing in the Ohio law saying voters must cast a ballot during a certain time span. https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/pub...voting-in-ohio

What next, a poll tax? A history exam?

[christiefan915]

LOL... and why is that Christie? Oh yeah, because they have systems in place to purge the rolls. But now you have people suing and pretending that such systems somehow prevent people from voting. Which is complete nonsense.

There's something wrong with your reading comprehension. Maybe you should get yourself checked.

People have the right not to vote in certain elections.

[PostmodernProphet]

can I purge Chrispy from the thread if she fails to respond four times?.......

[USFREEDOM911]

You truly are deluded: " It is pure nonsense to think we should never clean up the voter rolls."

NOBODY said the rolls shouldn't be cleared; the issue is about a time ultimatum for voters who may not vote in every election.There's nothing in the Ohio law saying voters must cast a ballot during a certain time span. https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/pub...voting-in-ohio

What next, a poll tax? A history exam?

For the reading impaired.

THEY CAN STILL VOTE, THEY JUST NEED TO RE-REGISTER IF THEY ARE REMOVED FOR NOT VOTING IN 6 YEARS.

How would you revise the poll records / what method do you find agreeable?

[Superfreak]

You truly are deluded: " It is pure nonsense to think we should never clean up the voter rolls."

NOBODY said the rolls shouldn't be cleared; the issue is about a time ultimatum for voters who may not vote in every election.There's nothing in the Ohio law saying voters must cast a ballot during a certain time span. https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/pub...voting-in-ohio

What next, a poll tax? A history exam?

The delusional one is YOU. You just stated that states have to purge, yet a perfectly reasonable system is in place in Ohio and you think it is outrageous they do so.

No matter what you do, the purge will be time/voting history related. It makes the most sense. How else are you supposed to do it? Please provide an example of what you think would be an acceptable solution to purge records.

[Superfreak]

There's something wrong with your reading comprehension. Maybe you should get yourself checked.

People have the right not to vote in certain elections.

I agree. People have the right to not vote. But if they do so for six years AND do not confirm their registration, then they will need to re-register if they get purged. It is a simple system. Even you should be able to follow those simple rules.

[christiefan915]

The delusional one is YOU. You just stated that states have to purge, yet a perfectly reasonable system is in place in Ohio and you think it is outrageous they do so.

No matter what you do, the purge will be time/voting history related. It makes the most sense. How else are you supposed to do it? Please provide an example of what you think would be an acceptable solution to purge records.

PA gives two federal election cycles and I think that's fair. Also...

"In Pennsylvania, according to Tim Benyo, chief clerk of Voter Registration and Elections in Lehigh County, people who are registered but haven’t voted over two federal election cycles are sent a card asking them to verify their registered address. If they respond, they are maintained on the voter rolls, he said.

If voters do not reply to the mailing, they are put on an inactive roll, but are still allowed to vote. Inactive voters have to sign an affidavit confirming their address and right to vote if they go back to the polls, he said.

The voter registration office also annually matches its records of inactive voters with a U.S. Postal Service database, Benyo said. If it finds voters have moved, they are contacted by voter registration, he said.

Voters who move also can stay on the rolls if they contact the the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s voter registration office, he said. From beginning to end, the process of purging a voter in Pennsylvania takes eight years, Benyo said. Up to 1,500 registered voters a year are purged from Lehigh County’s rolls, he said, out of roughly 245,000 voters.

http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworl...611-story.html

[christiefan915]

I agree. People have the right to not vote. But if they do so for six years AND do not confirm their registration, then they will need to re-register if they get purged. It is a simple system. Even you should be able to follow those simple rules.

You're always so nasty. No wonder people don't want to talk to you.

Six years is too soon. That is my problem with the decision. Can you understand that or should I put it in another language?