On Aug. 21, 2024, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced that he had referred evidence of nearly 600 noncitizen voters to Attorney General Dave Yost’s office for possible prosecution, with some of those voters already casting ballots in Ohio.
“I’m duty-bound to make sure people who haven’t yet earned citizenship in this country do not vote in our elections. We’ve so far identified 597 individuals who’ve registered to vote in Ohio despite not being citizens of the United States, as our state constitution requires,” LaRose said in a press release.
Post Millennial reported that he then added that 138 noncitizens had already voted.
“The evidence includes 138 individuals who appear to have cast a ballot in an Ohio election during the time state and federal records show they lacked citizenship status. The law requires me to refer these individuals to the attorney general, and that’s what we’re doing today,” LaRose said.
Earlier this year, LaRose launched an audit of Ohio’s voter registration database, removing 15,995 registrations confirmed inactive or abandoned for at least four consecutive years. […]
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