The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, a case challenging Ohio’s voter registration maintenance policy, which permits the government to remove individuals from the voter registration list after several years of absence at the polls.
Ohio implemented a law to maintain and update its voter registration lists pursuant to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002, which forbids states from removing any voter from the list simply for not voting. Under the Ohio law, voters are sent a notice after two years of not submitting a vote.
