Overview
- Ohio’s agreement grants long-term access to USCIS’s SAVE system, including bulk queries and documentation for each verification.
- In addition to citizenship checks, officials say SAVE data will help confirm deaths occurring outside Ohio to maintain voter rolls.
- LaRose sued after earlier access requests were denied under the Biden administration, with Ohio citing a March Trump executive order that a judge upheld.
- Pending Senate Bill 293 would require monthly cross-checks among the state voter database, BMV records, and SAVE, and it awaits Gov. Mike DeWine’s decision.
- LaRose’s office says it removed more than 155,000 inactive registrations and referred 1,084 suspected noncitizens to DOJ, while Democrats warn database errors could wrongly cancel eligible voters.