Ohio does not want to add most illegally purged voters back to the rolls

Ohio native Larry Harmon has been voting since 1976. He has only skipped a couple of elections in his life, when he didn’t feel informed enough or compelled by the candidates on the ballot. Last November, he showed up to his regular neighborhood polling place hoping to weigh in on a controversial ballot initiative on medical marijuana, only to find he had been purged from the rolls for missing the 2012 and 2014 elections.

A few weeks ago, a federal court declared Ohio’s purge of Harmon and more than one million other inactive voters illegal. Since then, the state and voting rights groups have been negotiating a settlement to allow most of those illegally purged to cast ballots this November. Those negotiations broke down this week, and the state submitted its own proposal to the U.S. District Court that would only let a narrow segment of purged voters to participate....
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