OHIO — Ohio's 88 county boards of election have been ordered to remove inactive voter registrations belonging to people who recently registered and voted in another state by Secretary of State Frank LaRose.

Through multi-state data sharing agreements, LaRose's Office of Data Analytics and Archives initially identified nearly 12,000 registrations belonging to people who registered and voted in another state for the 2024 general election.


What You Need To Know

  • County boards of election will begin removing inactive voter registrations belonging to people who recently registered and voted in another state for the 2024 general election

  • There were initially nearly 12,000 registrations belonging to this category

  • A cancelation notice must first be sent and those that think their registration was flagged in error can appeal it

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“We have a duty under Ohio law to maintain accurate voter rolls,” said LaRose in a news release. “This is a commonsense safeguard that’s basically designed to prevent double voting. The law says if you’ve changed your registration to another state and then voted in that state’s election, you’re no longer eligible to be registered to vote in Ohio.”

Through the directive, election officials must send a cancelation notice before they are formally removed from the state's voter registration database. Individuals who believe their registration was flagged in error can then appeal to the board of elections in their residential county.

“Election integrity begins with making sure we have accurate voter rolls,” LaRose said. “This careful and deliberate list maintenance process is one of the many reasons why other states look to Ohio as the model for election administration.”

This newest directive continues to build on the state's recurring audit process of Ohio's voter rolls, which includes the removal of noncitizens, inactive, deceased persons and otherwise abandoned registrations.