Ohio uncovers over 1,000 noncitizens ‘appearing’ registered to vote, sends cases to DOJ for prosecution

An investigation by Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has uncovered greater than a thousand noncitizens who “registered to vote unlawfully in Ohio,” his workplace introduced Tuesday.

LaRose says he has referred all 1,084 circumstances to the Justice Division, noting that 167 of the people have solid ballots in federal elections since 2018. LaRose’s workplace additionally referred 135 others for attainable prosecution, citing proof of different unlawful voting exercise.

“Ohio has earned its popularity as a gold normal, and our Election Integrity Unit continues to show why,” LaRose stated in a press release to Fox Information Digital. “We work tirelessly to make sure that the voice of each eligible voter is heard, and anybody who makes an attempt to cheat the system will face severe penalties.”

LaRose despatched a letter to the DOJ’s prison division on Tuesday, highlighting proof of the 1,084 non-citizen voter registrations and different alleged crimes.

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Voters fill out their ballots on Election Day in Columbus, Ohio on November 7, 2023. Ohio residents voted on November 7, 2023 to enshrine the correct to abortion within the Republican-run US state’s structure, US media predicted, in what could possibly be a harbinger of a difficulty prone to dominate subsequent 12 months’s presidential race. (Getty Photos)

The opposite crimes embody 99 people who seem to have voted in the identical federal election in two states; 16 individuals who voted twice in the identical federal election in Ohio; 14 who seem to have voted in federal elections after the date of their loss of life; 4 who seem to have engaged in poll harvesting and two who registered in an illegal residence.

The DOJ didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Fox Information Digital.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose speaks throughout a Home Administration Committee listening to on the Longworth Home Workplace Constructing within the U.S. Capitol on September 11, 2024 in Washington, DC (Getty Photos)

Tuesday’s referrals proceed LaRose’s efforts to scrub up Ohio’s voter rolls forward of the 2024 election. LaRose sued former President Joe Biden’s administration for failing to offer information that might have allowed his workplace to establish improper voter registrations.

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His workplace additionally eliminated greater than 155,000 voter registrations that had been confirmed to have been deserted and inactive for at the very least 4 consecutive years.

Ohio eliminated roughly 155,000 unauthorized voter registrations from its voter rolls forward of the 2024 election. (AP Picture/Joshua A. Bickel, file)

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The audit was based mostly on evaluation and cross-checking with information from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Automobiles, the Division of Homeland Safety’s federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database, the Social Safety Administration, federal jury pool information and different sources.

LaRose’s workplace additionally referred a whole lot of alleged non-citizen voters to the DOJ for attainable prosecution within the months main as much as Election Day.