WASHINGTON (AP) — Ohio’ s Secretary of State is defending his state’s process for pruning its voter rolls after oral arguments about the system at the Supreme Court.
Jon Husted said Wednesday outside the court that his state’s process balances the state’s need to keep voter rolls up-to-date with ensuring people have the opportunity to vote.
Republican-led Ohio is one of a handful of states that use voters’ inactivity to trigger a process that could lead to their removal from voter rolls. Registered voters who don’t vote for two years are sent notices. If they don’t return them and fail to vote for four more years, they’re removed.
Husted says the system has been in place for over 20 years, under Democratic and Republican secretaries of state. He says the state’s elections system makes it “easy to vote and hard to cheat.”