If enacted, the SAVE America Act would create hurdles for potential voters and election officials alike. By� Nathaniel Rakich �for Votebeat Presidents’ Day is always the hardest holiday to shop ...
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Supposedly the SAVE act is for new registrants, but this would be weaponized IMO with voter purges
In my state, they can remove people from voter rolls without notice.
Voting rights groups contend an Ohio law signed late last year relies on shaky data to remove voters from the rolls when federal law doesn’t allow it — all without providing notice to the voters facing removal.
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Ohio Senate Bill 293’s most notable change was the elimination of a four-day grace period for absentee ballots. But the measure also directs the secretary of state to comb through the voter registration database monthly to remove suspected noncitizens on the rolls.
What could be wrong with that? The voting rights groups contend Ohio’s law relies on shaky data to remove voters when federal law doesn’t allow it — and without providing notice to the voters facing removal.
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The biggest, and most obvious fault in Ohio’s law is its apparent violation of the National Voter Registration Act’s 90-day quiet period.
The 30-plus year-old statute that required voter registration at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles also placed limits on the systematic removal of people on the rolls.
State officials can do as much list maintenance as they want so long as they don’t do it during the 90 days before a federal election.
The idea is simple and well-established: cancelling a person’s registration right before an election gives them little chance to correct the issue if they were removed in error.
“Because the secretary ‘shall’ institute citizenship database reviews every month,” the complaint states, “he will necessarily institute at least two (and possibly more) systematic removal programs during the NVRA’s prescribed ‘quiet period.’”
