with the aclu of ohio arguing in a few hours in front of the supreme court in a case called houston versus apri. and it s commonly known as the voter purge case. and we re representing clients like larry harmon who is a navy war veteran who has lived in ohio all of his life except when he was overseas defending this country. he voted for the last time and usually only voted in presidential elections, he voted in 2008 him his life got in the way. his mother passed away. he became disill lugsd with life. when he went to the polls in the primary of 2015, he found that he was no longer registered and that s because of process that ohio has that other states have, ohio s is the most aggressive, it basically says, if you have voted infrequently, failure to vote is a reason why we should start a process to purge you from the rolls. and we believe and the lower
felons from voting. what is being done about that? we re seeing a new wave of laws making it harder to cast a ballot. 2011 to 2013, big wave of laws, started to die down in 14 through 16. since the election, another onslaught of laws making it harder for people to vote. some sense looks like folks are seeing that the 2016 electorate looked one way, want to try to lock that into place with laws that prevent demographic shifts happening in this country from changing voting patterns. the wisconsin gerrymandering case isn t the only case the supreme court announced they re taking on voting in the last month. they re taking a voter purge case from ohio, an aclu case. john hue stead. this is a practice in ohio, they initiate purging from voting if you didn t vote during a two-year period. more than half americans don t vote. talking a lot of people. 7500 people would have been