Culling Voter Rolls: Battling Over Who Even Gets to Go to the Polls
Governing | November 27, 2017
On its face, the notice sent to 248 county election officials asked only that they do what Congress has ordered: Prune their rolls of voters who have died, moved or lost their eligibility or face a federal lawsuit.The notice, delivered in September by a conservative advocacy group, is at the heart of an increasingly bitter argument over the seemingly mundane task of keeping accurate lists of voters an issue that will be a marquee argument before the Supreme Court in January.