Voter-Purge Efforts Get Support at U.S. High Court SessionBloomberg Politics, Jan 10, 2018, Greg Stohr
U.S. Supreme Court justices suggested they may give states broader latitude to purge their voting databases of people who might have moved, as the court heard arguments Wednesday in an Ohio case that could shape who gets to cast ballots in the November election.
Justice Stephen Breyer hinted he might join his more conservative colleagues in voting to uphold an Ohio system that uses non-voting as a factor in deciding which people to remove from the rolls. Breyer questioned whether states have enough other tools to purge people who have moved away or died in far-away places.
"What are they supposed to do?" he asked. "Is Rhode Island supposed to look at the Tasmanian voting records or hospital records?"
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