{"id":719,"date":"2021-02-22T17:54:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voterpurgeproject.org\/?p=719"},"modified":"2021-02-22T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:54:20","slug":"ohio-nearly-purged-10000-voters-who-ended-up-casting-2020-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voterpurgeproject.org\/index.php\/2021\/02\/22\/ohio-nearly-purged-10000-voters-who-ended-up-casting-2020-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio nearly purged 10,000 voters who ended up casting 2020 ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>List of 116,000 people set to be removed from rolls after election included thousands of eligible voters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jan\/27\/us-voting-rights-voter-registration-ohio-purge\">From the Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 10,000 people who Ohio believed had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohiosos.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/2021\/2021-01-19\/\">\u201cabandoned\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;their voter registration cast ballots in the 2020 election, raising more concern that officials are using an unreliable and inaccurate method to identify ineligible voters on the state\u2019s rolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, Ohio\u2019s Republican secretary of state, Frank LaRose, released a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohiosos.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/2020\/2020-08-28\/\">list of 115,816<\/a>&nbsp;people who were set to be purged after the November election because the election officials in each of Ohio\u2019s 88 counties flagged them as inactive. Voters could remove their name from the list by taking a number of election-related actions, including voting, requesting an absentee ballot, or simply confirming their voter registration information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, LaRose\u2019s office announced that nearly 18,000 people on the initial list did not have their voter registration canceled, including 10,000 people who voted in the November election.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohiosos.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/2021\/2021-01-19\/\">About 98,000<\/a>&nbsp;registrations were ultimately removed from the state\u2019s rolls, LaRose\u2019s office announced last month. There are more than 8 million registered voters in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohiosos.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/2021\/2021-01-19\/\">statement<\/a>, LaRose said the fact that so many people prevented their voter registrations from being canceled is a success of the state\u2019s unprecedented efforts to notify voters at risk of being purged. But voting rights groups say the fact that Ohio nearly purged thousands of eligible voters is deeply alarming and underscores the inaccurate and haphazard way the state goes about maintaining its voter rolls.<br><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jan\/27\/us-voting-rights-voter-registration-ohio-purge\">Read the full story at The Guardian<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=Voter_purge\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>List of 116,000 people set to be removed from rolls after election included thousands of eligible voters From the Guardian: More than 10,000 people who Ohio believed had&nbsp;\u201cabandoned\u201d&nbsp;their voter registration cast ballots in the 2020 election, raising more concern that officials are using an unreliable and inaccurate method to identify ineligible voters on the state\u2019s 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