SCOTUS has agreed to hear Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Ohio voter list purging case..

[Princess Turandot]

From SCOTUSBlog:

"Issue: Whether 52 U.S.C. § 20507 permits Ohio's list-maintenance process, which uses a registered voter's voter inactivity as a reason to send a confirmation notice to that voter under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002."

The lower court (6th Circuit) had overturned a district court judge's decision that the concerns of the plaintiff-voters were moot. Ohio then appealed that decision to the Supreme Court.

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/husted-v-philip-randolph-institute/

[Sanity Claws]

1. I checked on the link but still not sure I understand the case

What is Ohio's position? That voters should not be given notice that they will be unenrolled from voting list due to inactivity?

[Control-Z]

2. I believe it is being unenrolled from the voter rolls

in the first place. You don't stop being an American citizen due to inactivity. That is how I've understood it.

[WellDarn]

3. This is an important development

BUT a bad one.

We (well, our side) won in the 6th Circuit.

The challenge was to the most heinous and far-reaching voter purge tool in Republican' hands. Essentially, what Ohio was doing was using what appears to be a specifically-prohibited reason for removing a voter from the voting rolls (that is, the failure to vote in prior elections) as a trigger to send a confirmation letter (a letter saying, "Hi, it's the State of Ohio, return this letter in X number of days or we will assume that you've moved and take you off the rolls) and then using the voter's non-response as the reason for removing them from the rolls (which IS NOT prohibited).

The bad guys (backed by prominent vote-suppressor groups as amici) wanted review. We (the good folks) opposed it.

Keep your fingers crossed . . . it could get ugly.

[Ohioblue22]

4. It won't get ugly at all the people of Ohio will lose in a 5-4 decision

[WellDarn]

5. Yep

Even considering it only takes 4 votes to grant cert., this doesn't look good.