A Federal Court has Blocked an Indiana Law that would have allowed County Elections Officials to kick Voters Off the Rolls immediately without Notice.
The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Indiana, Demos, and the Firm Davis Wright Tremaine Challenged the Law, which sought to Circumvent Federally Mandated Safeguards from a State Purge Process, allowing Voters to be Purged based solely on Second-Hand Information without Notice or an Opportunity to Correct the Record.
Besides moving Within or Out-Off the State or Death, The Law states: After Missing Two Federal Elections, the State sends a Notice Verifying your Address. If you don't Reply, the State can Change your Status on the Voter Rolls to Inactive. Then after Missing Two more Federal Elections, the State can Remove you from the Voter Rolls.
Previously in this Case, federal Courts Struck Down a virtually Identical State Law that relied on Data from the Controversial Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, that many States have left.
Instead of Fixing the Problems, Indiana enacted a New Law that Replicated the same Flawed Procedures and simply swapped the Crosscheck Program with an Indiana-based Program called the
Indiana Data Enhancement Association.
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