Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose detailed efforts by the Biden-Harris administration and liberal teams to push again on audits of voter rolls throughout the nation forward of Election Day.
LaRose highlighted his personal lawsuit in opposition to the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) geared toward forcing the administration to share information he says would assist establish non-citizens who’re registered to vote. The ACLU and different left-leaning teams have additionally challenged efforts to scrub up voter rolls in Ohio and different states.
“It should come as no surprise that the irresponsible Biden-Harris administration, who has thrown open the doors on the southern border; who has allowed our nation to be invaded in many ways… are also not allowing me as an election official to access data to prove that only American citizens are able to vote,” LaRose mentioned.
“It’s shocking, and they left me no choice but to sue them,” he added.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose sued the Biden administration to achieve entry to federal information. (Getty Photographs)
The lawsuit claims there have been 4 situations during which Ohio’s requests for entry to federal Particular person Centric Question Service (PCQS) and Central Index System 2 (CIS2) information had been ignored or denied.
“On October 10, 2024, nearly three months after first requesting assistance, Secretary LaRose received a response from DHS. The letter claimed that Ohio’s access to the SAVE program was sufficient—despite Ohio’s previous letters explaining why SAVE is largely useless here because Ohio lacks the identifiers needed to find specific individuals in SAVE,” the lawsuit reads.
Ohio’s ongoing seek for wrongful voter registrations depends on evaluation and cross-checks in opposition to information offered by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Autos, the DHS Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, the Social Safety Administration, federal jury pool information and different sources.
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Whereas LaRose’s workplace can entry the SAVE database, states utilizing it need to pay $1.50 for every question for information, and discovering the knowledge required to correctly search the information is cumbersome, LaRose says.
The PCQS information the Biden administration has declined to share would offer a extra complete image of whether or not any non-citizens stay registered to vote in Ohio, LaRose says.
When reached for remark by Fox Information Digital, a DHS spokesperson mentioned they’re “engaged with Ohio and will continue to correspond with them directly through official channels.”
The ACLU sued LaRose’s workplace in an effort to cease sure folks from having to confirm their citizenship. (getty)
The DHS additionally pushed again on LaRose declare that the extra federal information can be useful.
“A manual review of hundreds of thousands of records by the PCQS only allows users to submit one query at a time and would still not lead to a definitive result. Moreover, it would not be an efficient or accurate way to verify U.S. citizenship,” the DHS mentioned.
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“PCQS returns aggregated results across many different immigration systems for a single query at a time. Use of PCQS would require manual review of the results in each case to determine immigration status, as the systems may return disparate or conflicting results. As such, PCQS is not an option for state and local agencies to use for voter verification purpose,” it added.
Voters throughout the nation are ready to go to the polls on Election Day. (Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register by way of Getty Photographs)
LaRose went on to element efforts by liberal teams to dam the elimination of registrations.
“Just yesterday we won a major lawsuit in federal court where the ACLU sued me – this sounds like something that’s in the Babylon Bee – they sued me to say that we should accept non-citizen ID cards and then just allow people to vote without any citizenship verification.”
“Thankfully, common sense prevailed and the ACLU lost that. Of course, if your state-issued driver’s license says ‘non-citizen’ on it, we’re not going to simply hand you a ballot. We’re gonna ask for you to verify your citizenship,” he added.
The Biden-Harris administration has tried to dam states from cleansing up their voter rolls within the remaining days earlier than Election Day. (Tierney L. Cross)
The ACLU’s lawsuit pertained to naturalized residents trying to vote with an ID that labeled them a non-citizen attributable to it being obtained previous to their naturalization. The ACLU argued such residents ought to be capable of affirm their naturalization on a authorities doc on the polling website, whereas LaRose argued such a person should present their naturalization paperwork earlier than casting a poll.
“Requiring naturalized citizens to bring additional documentation to verify their eligibility to vote is not only burdensome and discriminatory, it’s unlawful,” Freda Levenson, authorized director of the ACLU of Ohio, mentioned of the swimsuit.
A federal decide sided with LaRose on the problem final week.
LaRose added that the Justice Division has additionally sued states for trying to take away unhealthy registrations. Such DOJ lawsuits accuse state officers of violating the federally mandated “quiet period” that prohibits the systematic elimination of registered voters inside 90 days of Election Day.
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The DOJ sued Virginia earlier in October in precisely this trend, although the Supreme Court docket sided with state officers in a ruling final week.
