Jon Husted, Petitioner
Eric E. Murphy, Counsel of Record
In 1994, the State of Ohio, by order of its secretary of state, began a policy of sending confirmation letters to residents who had not voted in two years. If the recipient does not reply, and then also does not vote over the next four years, Ohio removes the name from its roll of registered voters. The stated goal of the effort was to ensure that voter databases were up to date and did not contain names of people who had since moved out of their registered precincts. In April 2016, the Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Ohio Coalition…
