OHIO — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced Thursday that a new intergrity pilot program will help assist county boards of elections with keeping accurate voter registration records.

LaRose said in a press release that the program includes county-specific digital dashboards, helping election officials identify differences in their voter rolls.

“We have a duty under the law to maintain accurate voter rolls, and that requires constant vigilance,” said LaRose in a press release. “Hundreds of times every day, a registered voter dies, moves, changes a name or cancels a registration. We also have records that for many years have been manually entered into the system from a hand-written form. That process can sometimes lead to human error, and this program will help our county elections officials more effectively clear up these issues.”

The pilot program will have data integrity portals for six counties: Clermont, Franklin, Gallia, Lake, Lucas and Warren. They will be able to access digital dashboards, showing the number of registration records that have been flagged for possible errors. The dashboards will also allow them to see the number of resolved records as well as the resolution time.

“You must have accurate voter rolls to conduct elections,” said Brian Sleeth, past president of the Ohio Association of Election Officials and director of the Warren County Board of Elections, in a press release. “We support Secretary LaRose’s effort to help the counties do this important voter list maintenance work, and we look forward to making the pilot program a success that can be rolled out statewide.”  

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