How to find out if your voter registration was removed in Ohio’s mass purge WEWS: Atiba Ellis, professor of law, discussed the latest round of mass purges of Ohio voter registration data. “States have a large degree of discretion in terms of how they run elections and how they run voter registration and maintaining voter lists in particular,” he said. “Federal law tends to require that states make—what basically is a good faith effort in terms of maintaining accurate lists.” |