Ohio secretary of state sues Biden administration for 'obstructing' removal of non-citizen registered voters

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose sued President Biden's management connected Thursday, accusing officials of "obstruction and outright maltreatment of power."

The lawsuit, revenge successful nan U.S. Southern District of Ohio, says nan Department of Homeland Security refused connected aggregate occasions to assistance entree to national records that are "necessary to forestall non-citizens from voting." LaRose's agency has conducted a rolling audit of nan state's elector rolls ahead of Election Day, and he has antecedently told Fox News Digital that state-level records tin only return nan process truthful far.

"I swore an oath to uphold our authorities constitution, and that archive intelligibly requires that only United States citizens tin participate successful Ohio elections," LaRose said successful a statement. "The Biden-Harris Administration is engaging successful obstruction and outright maltreatment of powerfulness to forestall america from removing non-citizens from our elector rolls. I return my work seriously, truthful if they want a conflict complete nan integrity of our elections, they’ve sewage it."

The suit cites 4 instances successful which Ohio's requests for entree to national records were denied. Ohio's audit relies connected study and cross-checks against records provided by nan Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, nan DHS Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, nan Social Security Administration, national assemblage excavation information and different resources.

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Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose speaks during a House Administration Committee proceeding successful nan Longworth House Office Building astatine nan U.S. Capitol connected Sept. 11, 2024, successful Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)

While LaRose's office tin entree nan SAVE database, states utilizing it person to salary $1.50 for each query for records, and uncovering nan accusation required to decently hunt nan information is cumbersome, LaRose says.

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The information nan Biden management is refusing to stock would supply a much broad image of really galore non-citizens stay registered to ballot successful Ohio, LaRose says.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris locomotion to an arena connected weapon unit successful nan East Room of nan White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Sept. 26, 2024. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

"While nan management is blocking entree to these records, nan Department of Justice is suing aliases threatening to writer aggregate states, including Ohio, who are trying to enforce their citizenship voting requirements," LaRose added. "It’s hardly a coincidence. The aforesaid management that’s presided complete nan astir reckless, porous migration argumentation successful our country’s history is besides intentionally blocking states from protecting nan integrity of their elections."

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In August, LaRose's agency referred 138 non-citizen registered voters to nan state's lawyer general. That group came arsenic portion of 597 non-citizen voters who were removed from nan state's rolls.

Ohio and different states are taking measures to region wrongful registrations from elector rolls up of Election Day. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

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LaRose's audit has besides purged astir 155,000 elector registrations that were confirmed to beryllium abandoned and inactive for astatine slightest 4 consecutive years.