/tags/voter-purge voter purge en-US Copyright Wed, 01 Nov 2023 02:29:53 GMT /2023-10-31/democrats-want-to-know-about-27-000-ohio-voter-registration-removals-but-larose-says-its-the-law Democratic lawmakers are calling on Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose to restore 27,000 voter registrations removed from the rolls last month, which his office says had to happen then because of a limited timeframe under federal law. Wed, 01 Nov 2023 02:29:53 GMT /2023-10-31/democrats-want-to-know-about-27-000-ohio-voter-registration-removals-but-larose-says-its-the-law Karen Kasler /news/2021-09-03/ohio-elections-chief-launches-new-idle-voter-purge-process The state's Republican secretary of state Frank LaRose has directed Ohio's 88 county elections boards this week to begin the four-year process of identifying voters who have been inactive the past two years. Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:45:19 GMT /news/2021-09-03/ohio-elections-chief-launches-new-idle-voter-purge-process Andrew Welsh-Huggins /ideastream/2021-03-04/larose-places-summit-county-board-of-elections-under-state-oversight Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose this week placed the Summit County Board of Elections under administrative supervision and blocked the reappointment of one board member, citing failures in the 2020 election and prior years. Those failures include errors in the removal of dead residents from the voter rolls. Over the last few months, the board has been investigating how it failed to catch – and then counted – a ballot cast in the name of one woman who died before the November election. Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:24:37 GMT /ideastream/2021-03-04/larose-places-summit-county-board-of-elections-under-state-oversight Nick Castele /news/2021-01-20/ohio-removes-98-000-voter-registrations-in-latest-purge A near record number of Ohioans were registered to vote in 2020. Now 97,795 voter registrations have been removed from the rolls during what Ohio… Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:44:52 GMT /news/2021-01-20/ohio-removes-98-000-voter-registrations-in-latest-purge Jo Ingles /news/2020-08-31/search-is-on-for-ohio-voters-facing-purge-after-november-election Ohio’s Secretary of State has released the list of nearly 116,000 voter registrations that are in danger of being removed after the November election. Now… Mon, 31 Aug 2020 10:25:25 GMT /news/2020-08-31/search-is-on-for-ohio-voters-facing-purge-after-november-election Jo Ingles /news/2020-08-07/ohio-election-officials-push-voter-roll-maintenance-past-november-election The Ohio Secretary of State’s office is going forward with legally-mandated voter list maintenance—the so-called "purge" of inactive voters from the… Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:25:28 GMT /news/2020-08-07/ohio-election-officials-push-voter-roll-maintenance-past-november-election Nick Evans /show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2020-02-04/voter-suppression Voter rolls are the gateway to voting, and to ensure that the information they contain is accurate, states periodically remove or purge the names of… Tue, 04 Feb 2020 14:07:10 GMT /show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2020-02-04/voter-suppression /news/2019-11-04/2019-election-early-voting-ends-monday Monday is the last day for early voting before Tuesday's election. Voters who want to cast their ballot early can go to the Franklin County Board of… Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:09:38 GMT /news/2019-11-04/2019-election-early-voting-ends-monday Clare Roth, Gabe Rosenberg /news/2019-10-01/voting-rights-groups-racing-to-register-ohioans-before-deadline Secretary of State Frank LaRose says 182,858 voter registrations were removed from the rolls in Ohio’s latest voter purge.Many of the voters that were… Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:46:56 GMT /news/2019-10-01/voting-rights-groups-racing-to-register-ohioans-before-deadline Jo Ingles /news/2019-09-27/ohio-secretary-of-state-may-review-past-lists-of-purged-voters Ohio’s Secretary of State says he will release the list of registrations removed from voting rolls this month to various voter groups so they can… Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:41:39 GMT /news/2019-09-27/ohio-secretary-of-state-may-review-past-lists-of-purged-voters Jo Ingles