Ohio’s Republican candidate for secretary of state says he will definitely continue the state’s practice of purging voter rolls. State Rep. Kathleen Clyde, the Democratic candidate for the job, will not:
"There's no reason to purge. We have laws in place to purge voters when they become ineligible," Clyde said in an interview. "We don't need to guess by sending mailings and seeing they didn't vote in a few elections."
Clyde said there's ample evidence that thousands of voters who showed up to vote had been wrongly purged.
As secretary of state, Clyde would reinstate wrongly purged voters:
"We have the data about who was purged for infrequent voting," Clyde said. "It will take some work to put this process in place, but it's certainly worthwhile to do that and to let eligible voters have their rights back."
Republicans don’t want people to vote—or anyway, not people who are likely to vote Democratic, the people most likely to be targeted by voter purges. By contrast, Kathleen Clyde wants to restore voting rights to people who never should have lost them.
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