Justice dept joins lawsuit to purge Kentucky voter rolls, Kentucky gets busy purging

[Demovictory9]

One day after the Supreme Court upheld voter purging in Ohio, the Justice Department decided to get in on the action. The department sued the state of Kentucky on Tuesday to force it to “systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the registration records”—and Kentucky quickly agreed to comply.

The lawsuit, filed in conjunction with the conservative group Judicial Watch, alleges that Kentucky has not made “a reasonable effort to remove registrants who have become ineligible due to a change of residence.” Judicial Watch first sued Kentucky in November 2017, and the Justice Department announced it was joining the lawsuit on Tuesday. That same day, Kentucky settled the lawsuit and said it would make “a reasonable effort to remove from the statewide voter registration list the names of registrants who have become ineligible.”

This is the Trump administration’s first lawsuit against a state to force aggressive voter voter purging and could be the beginning of a new effort to curb voting rights. In June 2017—on the same day that President Donald Trump’s controversial Election Integrity Commission asked states to hand over sensitive voter data— the Justice Department sent a letter to 44 states informing them it was reviewing their voter list maintenance procedures and asking how they planned to “remove the names of ineligible voters.” Vanita Gupta, who led the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under President Barack Obama, called the letter “virtually unprecedented” and predicted it would lead to new voter purges.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/the-supreme-court-gave-the-green-light-to-voter-purges-trumps-justice-department-isnt-wasting-any-time/

[lagomorph777]

1. Kentuckians, get the word out: check your eligibility every week from now 'til November!!

Same to Ohioans!

[DFW]

2. The Soviet States of America

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

[DBoon]

4. or this

“Some party hack decreed that the people
had lost the government's confidence
and could only regain it with redoubled effort.
If that is the case, would it not be be simpler,
If the government simply dissolved the people
And elected another?”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/962098-some-party-hack-decreed-that-the-people-had-lost-the

[anarch]

3. I'd expect the administration to try to implement some variation of Kobach's voter-purging system

across all the states...you know, just purging anyone who has a Middle-Eastern or Hispanic-sounding name, and/or just in the districts that tend to vote Democratic. I feel like that's one of the three pillars of Republican election strategy--suppress minority votes, get the Russians to roll out a strong propaganda campaign, and flip a small-but-critical percentage of electronic votes in key districts where they can get away with it. I'll be surprised if they don't try to enforce some kind of massive purge of voter rolls before November.