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  • Secretary of State Frank LaRose could purge more than 150,000 Ohio inactive voters before election

    Secretary of State Frank LaRose could purge more than 150,000 Ohio inactive voters before election

    Photo of a voting booth by WEWS.

    BY:  – Ohio Capital Journal

    More than 150,000 Ohio voters could potentially not be eligible to vote in the upcoming Presidential election.

    Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose recently published a list of 158,857 inactive voter registrations who are eligible to be removed from the Statewide Voter Registration Database — meaning they would be purged from voter rolls.

    “These registrations are eligible for removal under the law because records show they’re no longer residing or active at the registered address for at least the last four consecutive years,” LaRose said in a statement.

    Why are voters inactive?

    A registered voter could be on the list if they filled out a change-of-address form with the U.S. Postal Service signaling they have moved or they have not voted at their registered address in the past four years after being marked for removal by a county’s voter registration system.

    All 88 county boards of elections were required to collect and submit this data to LaRose’s office earlier this year. The voter purge is part of Ohio’s process of updating its rolls and removing voters who have moved out-of-state or died.

    County boards of elections must complete their voter purge by July 22, so people on the inactive voter list have until then to take action.

    What can inactive voters do to get off the list?

    In order to not be removed from the rolls and still be able to vote in the November election, an inactive voter can —

    • Confirm or update their voter registration at VoteOhio.gov, by mail or in-person at their local county board of elections.
    • Update or confirm their address with their county board of elections.
    • Submit an absentee ballot application.
    • Sign a candidate or issue petition that is verified by a board of elections.

    The deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 5 election is Oct. 7.

    A voter whose registration has been purged can regain their ability to vote by reregistering on the Secretary’s registration website or by visiting their county board of elections.

    Follow OCJ Reporter Megan Henry on X.

    Megan Henry
    MEGAN HENRY

    Megan Henry is a reporter for the Ohio Capital Journal and has spent the past five years reporting in Ohio on various topics including education, healthcare, business and crime. She previously worked at The Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA Today Network.

    Ohio Capital Journal is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.

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  • Nearly 911,000 absentee ballots requested, more than 42,000 absentee ballots cast to date in Ohio

    Nearly 911,000 absentee ballots requested, more than 42,000 absentee ballots cast to date in Ohio

    Just 21 days ahead of the November 6 General Election, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted said today that as of Friday, October 12, an estimated 910,982 absentee ballots had been requested and 42,470 had been cast statewide. This includes more than 7,900 ballot requests from military and overseas voters, whose absentee ballots started going out on Saturday, September 22, of which nearly 1,200 have been cast. Ballots for all other voters started going out on October 10 and more than 41,000 have been cast by mail and in person.

    2018 General Election By-the-Numbers

    • 8,025,232 Ohioans are registered to vote.
    • 910,982 voters have requested an absentee ballot by mail as of Friday.
    •  Of those, 42,470 have been cast.
    • 34,252voters have requested and cast an absentee ballot in person as of Friday.
    • 7,914military & overseas voters have requested an absentee ballot as of Friday.
    • Of those, 1,176 have been cast.
    At this same point during absentee voting in 2014, nearly 741,000 absentee ballots had been requested and more than 49,000 ballots had already been cast.
    During the 2018 General Elections, voters will decide a statewide ballot initiative, as well as races for both state and federal offices. There will also be 1,661 local issues(opens in a new window) across the state and a number of local races, which voters can obtain additional information on by contacting their county board of elections.
    Ohio voters have multiple options available to them to cast a ballot over a four week period that began October 10. A registered voter can cast an absentee ballot by mail or early in person, which gives them 24 hours a day to vote from home or nearly 200 hours to vote in person that includes weeknights and weekends, respectively. There is also Election Day, during which voters have 13 hours to cast a ballot at their neighborhood polling location. The voting schedule is accessible on the Secretary of State’s website.
    The full, detailed and interactive 2018 elections calendar is available online.
    For more information on the upcoming November 6 General Election or to download an absentee ballot request form, visit MyOhioVote.com.
    Additional Information:
    County-by-County Breakdown of Early Voting Numbers

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