America, known as “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” is a country recognized for it’s freedom and rights. As a country, at almost every turn, America has shown it’s responsibility and priority towards it citizens. Specifically, with the opportunity to vote. Being able to vote for presidents, senators, and governors is a very strong right that Americans hold in their hand and for many others in neighboring countries, this can be a sheer dream. Recently, Ohio passed a new law, stating that citizens who did not regularly vote for four years and were unresponsive to any kind of sent notice, would be removed from voting rolls; therefore, the name, “Use it or Lose it.” This is unconstitutional and should not only be revoked, but a new program should be enacted to address certain issues that were addressed under this “purging” law.
This law needs to have a public policy solution because voting is a public and basic right towards every American citizen. By restricting this, indirectly, citizens are denied from their fundamental right. The government should take action to review and remove this piece of Ohio legislation as it goes against the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution gives citizens the
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According to the Pew Center for the States, a study conducted found that 1.8 million dead people were still registered as active voters and 2.75 million people were registered in more than one state. The objective behind this law was to take inactive people who had either moved or passed away off the voting rolls and “clean it out.” Even though these are legitimate problems that need to be addressed, suppressing the general public’s ability to vote is not the answer. And while this may a more direct approach to addressing the problem, there can still be alternative solutions to these