Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has referred about 600 noncitizens for prosecution because they were illegally registered to vote, including 138 who were found to have cast ballots in elections.
LaRose said in a news release Wednesday that his office was duty bound to make sure noncitizens were not voting in elections.
In comparison, 148 noncitizen cases were referred in 2022, 117 were referred in 2021, and 354 were referred in 2019. More than 8 million people are registered to vote in Ohio.
“The law requires me to refer these individuals to the attorney general, and that’s what we’re doing today,” LaRose said.
Earlier this year, his office audited Ohio’s voter registration database, which resulted in 154,995 registrations being removed, because they were inactive for at least four consecutive years….