A federal appeals court in Ohio issued an emergency ruling allowing provisional ballots cast by people purged from voter rolls to be counted in next week’s midterm elections. Circuit Court of Appeals panel determined that those purged from the rolls between 2011 and 2015 will be eligible to vote as long as they live in the same county where they were last registered. Ohio’s secretary of state, Jon Husted, said he won’t appeal the ruling to avoid “an unnecessary source of contention” days before the election. Ohio removes voter registrations for people who don’t vote for several consecutive years and fail to notify the state of an address change. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that Ohio’s aggressive voter purge practice was legal.

Source: Huffington Post November 01, 2018 12:45 UTC