Every year, Ohio’s county election officials go through their voter rolls to remove inactive registrations.
Typically, it happens in the summer between the primaries and the general election in November.Republican lawmakers forced a special election in August to consider an amendment. Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose led the campaign for that proposal which would’ve raised the threshold for all future constitutional amendments.
“If voters were indeed purged,” she wrote, “I urge you to undo this bad decision and restore them to the rolls since voting is already underway for this November 7th election.” Sweeney insisted LaRose didn’t have to order counties to remove voters when he did. “This is a purge of choice,” she argued, pointing to 2022, when registrations were removed after the November election.
Although LaRose’s directive set the timeline for removing registrations back in June, Kayla Griffin from All Voting Is Local Ohio criticized the secretary for not adequately publicizing the process. The first process uses the National Change of Address database. That’s the one most counties completed in September, and it’s required under federal law. The secretary submits the state voter file and any names that show up in the NCOA database get flagged for county boards to double check.
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