[Lnc-business] Our amicus brief was mentioned in the SCOTUSblog article on the Ohio case

[Elizabeth Van Horn]

Excellent.  Thank you Nick for sharing this.

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Elizabeth Van Horn
LNC Region 3 (IN, MI, OH, KY)
Secretary Libertarian Party of Madison Co, Indiana
Chair-LP Social Media Process Review Committee
Vice-Chair Libertarian Pragmatist Caucus
http://www.lpcaucus.org/

On 2018-01-05 10:59, Nicholas Sarwark wrote:
> "The Libertarian National Committee suggests that Ohio’s rule also
> disproportionately affects voters who do not support the two major
> political parties. Those voters, it contends, “are particularly likely
> to engage in principled non-voting,” but the Ohio rule punishes them
> for not voting by dropping them from the rolls. When that happens, it
> explains, such voters are not only unable to vote, but they are also
> “ineligible to sign ballot access petitions under state law (i.e.,
> unable to help their preferred candidates, parties, and initiatives
> make it onto the ballot in future elections), unable to be identified
> and contacted by candidate campaigns that rely on the state’s voter
> registration records and invisible to pollsters and others who measure
> public opinion by seeking the views of registered voters.”"
> 
> http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/01/argument-preview-justices-consider-ohio-voter-purge-practices/
> 
> -Nick
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