Voting Purge Issues

Voting rights activists say about 4,000 Ohio residents are at risk of being illegally removed from state voting rolls, a figure questioned by the state’s elections chief. In a letter to Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, representatives of the League of Women Voters Ohio, the NAACP and other groups requested that he pause the process that will remove 235,000 voters from the rolls Sept. 6. The groups made their plea after looking at lists compiled by 88 county boards of election and released by LaRose in June.