The move comes on the heels of LaRose directing the boards last week to remove almost 155,000 voter registrations that his office claimed “to be abandoned and inactive for at least four consecutive years.”
In May, LaRose’s office directed the county boards of election to begin the process of removing noncitizens from state’s election registration rolls. At least 76 voters in Ohio’s latest voter purge were unhoused or housing insecure individuals who were registered to vote with home addresses listed at various shelters, according to reporting from Matter, an independent, nonprofit local newsroom in Columbus, Ohio.
“[The voter purge] is not something designed for that population,” Collin Marozzi, the deputy director of policy for the ACLU of Ohio, told Matter. “As a result, they’re often the first ones cut out of the process, and then, troublingly, the last ones brought back in.”
