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HUSTED v. A. PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE 

BREYER, J., dissenting 

who  have  probably  moved.    But  more  often  than  not,  the 
State  fails  to  receive  anything  back  from  the  registrant, 
and  the  fact  that  the  State  hears  nothing  from  the  regis-
trant essentially proves nothing at all. 
  Anyone  who  doubts  this  last  statement  need  simply 
consult  figures  in  the  record  along  with  a  few  generally 
available  statistics.    As  a  general  matter,  the  problem 
these  numbers  reveal  is  as  follows:  Very  few  registered 
voters  move  outside  of  their  county  of  registration.    But 
many registered voters fail to vote.  Most registered voters 
who  fail  to  vote  also  fail  to  respond  to  the  State’s  “last 
chance”  notice.    And the  number  of  registered voters  who 
both  fail  to  vote  and  fail  to  respond  to  the  “last  chance” 
notice  exceeds  the  number  of  registered  voters  who  move 
outside of their county each year. 
  Consider the following facts.  First, Ohio tells us that a 
small number of Americans—about 4% of all Americans—
move outside of their county each year.  Record 376.  (The 
majority suggests the relevant number is 10%, ante, at 2, 
but  that  includes  people  who  move  within  their  county.)  
At the same time, a large number of American voters fail 
to vote, and Ohio voters are no exception.  In 2014, around 
59% of Ohio’s registered voters failed to vote.  See Brief for 
League  of  Women  Voters  et al.  as  Amici  Curiae  16,  and 
n. 12 (citing Ohio Secretary of State, 2014 Official Election 
Results). 
  Although many registrants fail to vote and only a small 
number move, under the Supplemental Process, Ohio uses 
a registrant’s failure to vote to identify that registrant as a 
person  whose  address  has  likely  changed.    The  record 
shows that in 2012 Ohio identified about 1.5 million regis-
tered  voters—nearly  20%  of  its  8  million  registered  vot-
ers—as likely ineligible to remain on the federal voter roll 
because they changed their residences.  Record 475.  Ohio 
then sent those 1.5 million registered voters subsubsection 
(d)  “last  chance”  confirmation  notices.    In  response  to