(The Center Square) – Voter list sharing agreements are being launched between Ohio and 10 other states from Texas to Pennsylvania, the secretary of state said Monday.
EleXa, as the project is known, uses a symbolic “X” representing removal of ineligible or illegal voters identified through cross-state election data sharing agreements, second-term Republican Secretary Frank LaRose said. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia are signed to the agreement. Pennsylvania is finalizing.
LaRose said more states could join.
“Ohio has the most aggressive and effective voter list maintenance process in the nation, in part, because of the work we’ve done to enhance these data-sharing partnerships,” LaRose said in a release. “I look forward to expanding EleXa to include other states and continuing to build on our partnership with the federal government to prioritize election integrity in our state.”
The fifth-year secretary has made ballot integrity a focal point since winning election in the 2018 midterms.
“These data-sharing agreements allow Ohio to work with our colleagues in other states to identify people who try to vote illegally, often by having more than one active voter registration and then casting multiple ballots in the same election,” LaRose said.
