Ohio is purging 235,000 voter registrations on Friday despite evidence that thousands of the registrations flagged for deletion were eligible to vote.
Ohio has historically been a key swing state in presidential elections, going back and forth between the two parties. Trump won it in 2016, while President Barack Obama won it in 2012 and 2008.
In 2018, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) won reelection there, but so did Gov. Mike DeWine (R), highlighting the fact that neither party has a lock on the state’s votes.
View the complete September 7 article by Oliver Willis on the National Memo website here.