Hoffman v. State of Maryland

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

This case is a constitutional challenge to Maryland’s voter purge statute. The statute requires that registered voters who have not voted in the last five years be removed from the rolls by cancellation of their registration. At the time this action was filed, Thomas Hoffman and Timothy David Ulrich, the appellants, were among those voters to be removed from the rolls because they had not voted in the last five years. They filed suit in the district court challenging the constitutionality of this state law. The district court found that the statute did not “offend the…