Ohio restarts ´voter purge' process.  Is your voter registration up to date?

Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati EnquirerPublished 10:24 a.m. ET Jan. 9, 2019 | Updated 10:58 a.m. ET Jan. 9, 2019

 COLUMBUS - If you haven't voted in an Ohio election in several years, you might be one of more than 275,000 people getting a last-chance notice to remain on the voter rolls. 

On Wednesday, county board of elections sent out mailings to Ohioans who haven't voted in recent elections. It's a last-chance warning before they are removed from the voter rolls in the next 30 to 45 days.

Those voters received an initial warning in 2015, before the process was challenged in court by voters who said they were wrongly removed from the rolls.

You must be registered to vote in Ohio elections. If you get a notice, you should fill out the requested information and return the notice to your county board of elections or online.

Aren't sure if you're registered to vote in Ohio? There's an easy way to check: go to MyOhioVote.com and enter your name and the county where you live.

If you aren't registered, you can do that online or fill out paperwork at your local board of elections. 

The last-chance notices are a new addition from Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted as the state resumes its process of removing inactive voters from the rolls. Another change: voter registrations will be automatically updated through transactions with the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. 

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that Ohio could remove people who failed to vote for six years and did not confirm their residency. The decision came despite protests that it disproportionately affected minorities, the poor and people with disabilities.

Voters were not removed before the November election, but the process has resumed.