(The Center Square) – Less than two weeks after 16 Republican attorneys general pressured the Department of Homeland Security for voter registration information, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose sued.
LaRose wants access to citizenship records to continue to remove noncitizens from the state voter rolls.
“I swore an oath to uphold our state constitution, and that document clearly requires that only United States citizens can participate in Ohio elections,” LaRose said. “The Biden-Harris administration is engaging in obstruction and outright abuse of power to prevent us from removing noncitizens from our voter rolls. I take my duty seriously, so if they want a fight over the integrity of our elections, they’ve got it.”
The lawsuit says the Biden administration failed to give LaRose access to federal citizenship records four times and eventually denied the state access to the Systematic Alien Verification and Entitlements database Oct. 10.
Last week , 16 attorneys general, led by Ohio’s Dave Yost, called on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to provide voter registration information to states, particularly when it relates to citizenship status.