Jon Husted argued that his office met its statutory obligations and mailed postcards to Harmon and millions like him alerting them that if they did not respond within thirty days, the process of removal would begin. “If this is really [an] important thing to you in your life, voting,” the secretary of state chided, “you probably would have done so within a six-year period.”22 That argument, however, misses the basic point: failure to vote is not a legal, viable reason to purge someone from the voter rolls.
