Larry Harmon, 60, hadn’t voted in a while when he drove to the high
school in November 2015 to weigh in on a local referendum in Kent, Ohio.
But he wasn’t allowed to cast his ballot.
"I served in the military and they tell us,
'Oh, you’re fighting for freedom.'" he said. "Then you come back and
you’re taken off the voter rolls because you didn’t vote for two
elections? That doesn’t make sense. I thought that was our right."
Thanks to six years of inactivity — and a
single piece of unanswered mail asking him to confirm his voter
registration — Harmon, now a plaintiff in a major voter purge lawsuit
before the Supreme Court, was removed from Ohio’s voter rolls.
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Source: NBC News
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