Ohio Scrambling to Re-Register Voters

It's pretty common these days for Republican lead state governments to be accused of or found guilty of wrongfully making it difficult for people to vote. Most of it centers around voter fraud and these governments passing legislation to mandate some form of voter I.D. For the most part however, voter fraud is such a small problem most don't even consider it a problem. At the same time these laws tend to simply make it harder or even impossible for people to vote; specifically people of lower income and other groups that tend to not vote Republican. As a result, many of these laws are brought to the courts and ruled unconstitutional. Ohio has found themselves in a similar spot.

There is one key difference here though, because Ohio has not gotten into trouble for anything to do with voter I.D.'s, they have gotten into trouble for taking registered voters off of their registered voters list. In a single Democrat leaning county for instance, 40,000 registered voters were taken off the list. This is due to the nature of the law, which takes people of the list for not voting. They authors of  the law claim the law is to take people off the list who have moved out of the state or have died, which it does do, but it also simply takes people off who just didn't vote recently. If you ask me, it is very clever, as Democratic voter turn out is not as strong on voting days that don't involve a president. However, it does blatantly go against federal law on taking voters off registration lists and clearly has the potential to take any number of thousands of registered voters off the list for no good reason.

Now, with the election only a few weeks away and the early voting process already underway, the U.S. Circuit Court has sent it to the lower state courts to figure out how to resolve this issue in time for voters in Ohio to register again if they have been wrongfully taken off the list. However, there's no telling if the creators of this bill are going to let it die or keep fighting for it.

Source
http://www.ohio.com/news/politics/state/appeals-court-ohio-elections-chief-wrongly-purged-voters-1.714017?localLinksEnabled=false&cache=18961415304345%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252fnews%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252fohio%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252fcss%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252fresults%252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525%252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252527+and+1%2525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252