[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/6/18

[Rick Hasen]

“Challenge to Ohio’s voting roll purges persists after Supreme Court decision”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101388>
Posted on October 5, 2018 8:03 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101388> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Cleveland Plain Dealer:<https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/10/challenge_to_ohios_voting_roll.html#article>

Three months after they lost<https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/06/us_supreme_court_upholds_ohios.html> a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to Ohio’s process for removing inactive voters from its rolls, the lawsuit’s plaintiffs are back in federal court with a related claim: the notification forms Ohio used to initiate voter removal are illegal.

The plaintiffs say all voters the state deleted from the rolls from 1995 through 2016 through the disputed process upheld by the Supreme Court were actually removed unlawfully because the state’s notices for removal didn’t comply with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

On Sept. 14, the Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and Larry Harmon asked U.S. District Judge George C. Smith to reinstate all eligible voters who were sent the deficient notices, or take other measures to protect their voting rights in next month’s election.
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>


“Voters reported being blocked from Pa. election site — and from obtaining absentee ballots — as early as 2016”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101386>
Posted on October 5, 2018 8:00 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101386> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Philly Inquirer reports <http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/pa-uocava-voters-abroad-blocked-as-early-as-2016-overseas-absentee-ballot-20181005.html>
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>


True the Vote Lists Areas With High Minority Populations as “Hotspots” for Election “Integrity” Efforts<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101384>
Posted on October 4, 2018 11:32 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101384> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Via email:

Dear Supporter,

With little more than a month until the general election, the battle for election integrity is raging from coast to coast – and as the Wall Street Journal rightly reported, the Senate Fight Unfolds on Deep Red Terrain<http://email.pdmcampaign.com/ct/49376733:WHiWdgGBN:m:1:622831676:883299EA88E947F90A04DA23F9EA139B:r>. True the Vote went out on a bit of a limb when we forecasted our target states, but polls are now showing that all ten of our targets have races with extremely narrow margins; so we are focused in the right places. Here’s what’s on our radar:
[http://email.pdmcampaign.com/cimages/29c67ed94c2e3e72b32a5ba43a71fb2f/ttv20181004.png]


Make no mistake, integrity is critical in all elections, in every state. We’ve chosen to highlight these races because they are soooo close, which makes it all the more important for well-trained volunteers to help uphold the rule of law at every step of the electoral process. With that in mind, here’s what True the Vote is doing, online and on the ground:
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Posted in fraudulent fraud squad<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>


“Federal government asks justices to intervene in census dispute”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101382>
Posted on October 4, 2018 7:44 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101382> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

SCOTUSBlog<http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/10/federal-government-asks-justices-to-intervene-in-census-dispute/>:

The federal government went to the Supreme Court today, requesting<http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18A350.pdf> a halt to the depositions of two senior Trump administration officials – Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and John Gore, the acting head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division – in a challenge to Ross’ decision to bring back a question about citizenship on the 2020 census. The depositions are scheduled for early October, with a trial to follow in early November, but the government is asking the justices to put them on hold.
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