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 medication connected Thursday, accusing officials of "obstruction and outright maltreatment of power."

The lawsuit, filed successful the U.S. Southern District of Ohio, says the 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 bureau has conducted a rolling audit of the state's elector rolls ahead of Election Day, and helium has antecedently told Fox News Digital that state-level records tin lone instrumentality the process truthful far.

"I swore an oath to uphold our authorities constitution, and that papers intelligibly requires that lone United States citizens tin enactment 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 instrumentality my work seriously, truthful if they privation a combat implicit the integrity of our elections, they’ve got it."

The suit cites 4 instances successful which Ohio's requests for entree to national records were denied. Ohio's audit relies connected investigation and cross-checks against records provided by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the DHS Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, the 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 the Longworth House Office Building astatine the U.S. Capitol connected Sept. 11, 2024, successful Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)

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

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The information the Biden medication is refusing to stock would supply a much broad representation of however galore non-citizens stay registered to ballot successful Ohio, LaRose says.

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

"While the medication is blocking entree to these records, the Department of Justice is suing oregon 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 medication that’s presided implicit the astir reckless, porous migration argumentation successful our country’s past is besides intentionally blocking states from protecting the integrity of their elections."

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