Ohio reaches voter roll data sharing agreement with Trump administration
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Ohio election officials have reached a data-sharing agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration that will help clean and protect the state’s voter rolls.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced the new agreement Monday, saying it guarantees Ohio access to improved federal records for at least 20 years. The agreement refers to the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, which was previously limited and costly for state election officials.
LaRose said Monday’s agreement with the Department of Homeland Security guarantees Ohio the ability to obtain verifiable data that supports verification of every citizen, as well as the ability to handle bulk verification requests.
“Ohio has a duty to ensure that only U.S. citizens are registered to vote, and this agreement gives us the tools to do that job right,” LaRose said. he said. “I thank the Trump administration for working with us to provide long-term access to federal data needed to protect election integrity.”
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Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose speaks during a House Administration Committee hearing at the Longworth House Office Building at the U.S. Capitol on September 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. (getty images)
The agreement resolves a lawsuit LaRose filed against DHS under former President Joe Biden. The previous administration blocked access to SAVE data and charged states a fee per query for access.
LaRose’s office has already removed tens of thousands of inaccurate voter registrations in Ohio since the 2024 election. In October, it referred more than 1,000 non-citizens to the Justice Department for potential investigation after determining that they “appeared to have registered to vote illegally in Ohio.”
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People completing their ballot papers (Photo: REBECCA DROKE/AFP via Getty Images) (REBECCA DROKE/AFP via Getty Images)
His office said 167 of the 1,084 cases had voted in federal elections since 2018.
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The cases involved 99 people who appeared to have voted in two states in the same federal election; 16 people in Ohio who appear to have voted twice in the same federal election; 14 people who appear to have voted in federal elections after the date of death; four individuals apparently involved in vote harvesting and two individuals registered at an illegal residence.
People vote at Knox Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati on Election Day, November 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)
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LaRose’s office also removed more than 155,000 voter registrations that were confirmed to have been abandoned and inactive for at least four consecutive years.
