Franklin County is among the 90% of Ohio counties considered compliant with the Secretary of State鈥檚 order to improve . Just eight counties are considered incomplete, with two weeks until voters start casting early ballots for the March presidential primary.
Secretary of State Frank LaRose said a 34-point security checklist he developed last year.
Hamilton, Ottawa and Warren Counties will meet those requirements within a week, and Carroll, Holmes, Trumbull and Clark Counties are working on it.
The remaining county, Van Wert, is considered noncompliant and will have to check in with LaRose鈥檚 office once a week.
鈥淲e are placing the Van Wert County Board of Elections under administrative oversight,鈥� LaRose says.
Additionally, LaRose said a Coshocton County board member has been asked to resign for refusing to comply with the security directive.
That 34-point includes background checks and training for election workers, and installing intrusion detectors on servers.
LaRose said those break-in alarms are especially important. He noted that some counties have put those digital alarms the head of the county鈥檚 digital infrastructure.
鈥淚n which case, the board of elections is now helping to safeguard the rest of the county as well by detecting any kind of nefarious activity that could be occurring," LaRose said.
In , a server alarm in LaRose鈥檚 office caught an attempted intrusion from a Russian company. He announced a for his office last month.
Early voting for the March presidential primary starts. Absentee voting for military and overseas residents began on January 31.
