Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%
&gt; She went online and discovered that her name had also been flagged as an inactive voter. The state was in the process of removing her from its voter rolls.<p>&gt; “I voted three times last year,” said Ms. Miller.<p>I am still baffled at the election system in this country. Every state does its own thing. One state uses paper, other uses some machines which can be easily hacked, some use both. Somehow voter ID is controversial, but India, with more people, poverty and issues seems to have managed it. Why can&#x27;t they issue free IDs and track every voter in a database and call it a day?<p>&gt; The state of Ohio had released names of 235,000 voters it planned to purge from voter rolls in September [...] voting rights groups found an unexplained tranche — around 20,000 people<p>But that means 200k some thousand should have been purged. If they died, and a death certificate was issued, doesn&#x27;t some government database know about it and say, &quot;yeah, person is dead purge their voter record&quot;. It&#x27;s 2020 almost, we flew people to the moon, there is a Tesla roadster in Sun&#x27;s orbit, self driving cars, but somehow managing a few hundred million voter records is an impossible task and I don&#x27;t understand why.