Overview
- Secretary of State Frank LaRose asked the Justice Department to review cases flagged by an audit that identified 1,084 individuals who appear to have registered unlawfully.
- LaRose said 167 of those individuals appear to have cast a ballot in a federal election since 2018.
- His office also referred evidence of other alleged offenses, including 99 suspected double votes across two states, 16 suspected double votes within Ohio, 14 votes recorded after death, four suspected ballot-harvesting cases, and two unlawful residence registrations.
- The audit relied on cross-checks with Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles records, DHS’s SAVE database, the Social Security Administration, federal jury-pool data, and other sources.
- DOJ had not issued a public response at the time of reporting, and LaRose cited minimal prosecutions from hundreds of prior referrals to county prosecutors and the state attorney general.