Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose speaks during a House Administration Committee hearing in the Longworth House Office Building at the U.S. Capitol on September 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. (getty images)
The agreement concludes a lawsuit LaRose filed against the DHS under former President Joe Biden. The previous administration had withheld access to SAVE data and also charged states for access on a per-query basis.
LaRose's office has already removed tens of thousands of wrongful voter registrations in Ohio since before the 2024 election. He referred over 1,000 noncitizens to the DOJ for potential prosecution in October after determining that they "appear to have registered to vote unlawfully in Ohio."
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People vote on Election Day, Nov. 7, 2023, at Knox Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)
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LaRose's office also removed over 155,000 voter registrations that were confirmed to be abandoned and inactive for at least four consecutive years.
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