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Ohio One of 19 States Doing Massive Voter Roll Purges
September 30, 2008 CBS News Issued a report that Ohio is one of nineteen states according to a report by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York Law School has claimed that Ohio is ignoring a law that prohibits states from "purging" voters 90 days before an election.[1]
Past voter purges
For example, in Muscogee County in Georgia, the Brennen Center reports, a county official purged 700 people from voter lists for criminal convictions. Many of the people who received letters informing them of the purge, however, had never even received a parking ticket. In Mississippi, a local election official recently discovered that another official had wrongly purged 10,000 voters “from her home computer.”[2]
Another study, by the group U.S. PIRG, released last week, also looked at the issue of voter purging and discovered that 19 states are ignoring a federal law banning systematic purges within 90 days of a federal election. The 19 states include battleground states of Colorado, Ohio and Nevada.[3]
