1,092,392 voters purged from Ohio rolls since 2008

[Newsjock]

Source: The Free Press

The Free Press obtained public records from all 88 of Ohio’s county Boards of Elections (BOE) documenting that 1,092,392 voters were removed from the voting rolls since the last presidential election.

Cuyahoga County, which includes Democratic-rich Cleveland, led the Buckeye State with 267,071 purges. Franklin County which includes the capital of Columbus, removed 93,578 voters. Franklin County went 58% for Obama in the 2008 election. Hamilton County which includes Cincinnati removed 65,536 voters, for a total of 426,185 from these three Ohio counties. Once again, a few rural Ohio counties reported no purges. These include Hancock, Huron, Sandusky, and Wood counties.

The National Voting Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993 mandates that each state make a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official voting rolls. Some voters were purged for legitimate reasons such as those who are deceased and voters who moved out of the county or out of state. But, the Act also allows BOEs to remove voters who have not voted in two consecutive federal election cycles. BOEs are allowed to mail to registered voters who can be purged if they don’t respond to the mailing – even if they still live at their registered address.

These discretionary mass purges concentrated primarily in Ohio’s urban centers could be the key to whether Obama wins the nation’s most controversial swing state in this year’s election. A similar study by the Free Press during the 2008 year revealed 1.25 million voters purged. After the 2004 Ohio election debacle and recount, the Free Press discovered that between the 2000-2004 election cycles 305,000 voters had been purged in the state.

Read more: http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2012/1927

[freshwest]

1. GOP steals another election. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200. Go straight to HELL.

[dflprincess]

5. And, once again, the Democratic party will roll over and let them do it. n/t

[freshwest]

6. Maybe in Ohio, not where I live. We fought their last attempt and we'll do it again.

But then, our Governor and Senators and most of our Representatives are Democrats.

[shraby]

2. Pretty soon, they will have NO registered voters..they'll run out of people to purge.

[Auntie Bush]

3. We need a record of how many Democrats and how many ReThugs were purged.

Two bits a huge majority were Democrats. I wish someone could find that important telling information.

[Uncle Joe]

4. The natural followup in killing the democratic process after they eliminated Acorn.

I don't know why they have this law on the books, it shouldn't make a damn bit of difference.

"The National Voting Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993 mandates that each state make a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official voting rolls. Some voters were purged for legitimate reasons such as those who are deceased and voters who moved out of the county or out of state. But, the Act also allows BOEs to remove voters who have not voted in two consecutive federal election cycles. BOEs are allowed to mail to registered voters who can be purged if they don’t respond to the mailing – even if they still live at their registered address.

This makes it entirely too easy to disenfranchise the people.

Thanks for the thread, Newsjock.

[progressoid]

7. Holy smoke. That's 13% of registered voters.

[Festivito]

9. 1,092,392 / 4,546,767 = 24% of registered voters.

Of course we should include normal deaths and excessive moving out of state.

[LiberalFighter]

8. Almost 17% of Americans move each year. Over 42 million in 1993.

Number of deaths in 2009 -- nearly 2.5 million out of 305 million. 8/10 of a percent

Ohio annual deaths should be about 92,360 per year.
Ohio annual moves should be about 1,916,500 per year.
Number of residents moving out of state about 30,000 per year.

All Democratic organizations and other groups need to have a voter registration program in place and during the summer and leading up to the election be registering people to vote.

The key is identifying people who have moved whether within or into Ohio. And also people that have never registered such as young adults.

I do think that Ohio is extreme in removing people from the rolls. People are too busy to respond to crap from the election board when they have more urgent matters to attend. This is all the more reason voters in Ohio need to elect Democrats for their SoS.

[spanone]

10. THIS is how republicans 'win' elections

[DCKit]

11. +1 It's not as if they have a record to stand on. nt

[hootinholler]

12. I wish I knew the distribution of the parties of those purged.

My guess is it is heavily D voters.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. You know people are removed for legit reasons as well

But sometimes not. The question is not the raw numbers, people did indeed move out of state or changed adress or did stop voting. But how many were taken off for not valid reasons, like the Florida 2000 future felon list. Now that is a far better question.