A 2017 National Association of Secretaries of State report found that “in forty-four states, voters who fail to respond to a notice will be removed from the registration list if they do not vote, update their registration, or take some other action specified by law from the time of the notice through two federal general elections.” No other right guaranteed by our constitution permits the loss of a right for failure to use it—to wit, I don’t lose my Second Amendment right if I choose not to go hunting and I still have freedom of religion if I skip church now and then.
