[20180724]LSB10175_最高法院规定俄亥俄州选民登记法与《全国选民登记法》相一致.pdf

CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Supreme Court Rules Ohio Voter Roll Law Comports with National Voter Registration Act July 24, 2018 In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court recently ruled in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute that an Ohio process for removing the names of registrants from its official federal voter registration rolls comports with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). The case turned on the interpretation of the NVRAs so-called “Failure-to-Vote Clause,” which provides that any state program or activity to maintain accurate and current federal voter registration rolls “shall not result in the removal of any registrant . . . by reason of the persons failure to vote.” The Court held that Ohios use of voter inactivity to initiate a process to remove registrants from its rolls does not violate the NVRA because the registrants failure to vote is not the sole determinant of removal. Although the Supreme Courts ruling upholds Ohios voter roll maintenance process, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted reportedly has indicated that names of registrants will not be removed from the voter rolls prior to the November