The state is still counting up how many of 235,000 voter registrations identified as inactive were . But Secretary of State Frank LaRose said he wants to continue to work with voter rights groups who had concerns that .
The goal is to purge dead voters, those who鈥檝e moved and duplicate registrations. Secretary of State Frank LaRose said counties were required to send reports on the numbers of registrations they eliminated by last Friday. And his office is still adding up those totals.
LaRose said 14,000 of those initial 235,000 registration are now active because voters updated their addresses or responded to voting rights groups, who . That's up from an initial report that 12,500 registrations had been activated.
And LaRose said once a final list of those registrations that were deleted is assembled, he'll turn it over to the voting rights groups, so they can send out voter registration forms. LaRose , at a cost of $130,000 鈥� .
鈥淚 think what that shows is that really, by the time you鈥檝e gone through all of these different processes that what remains on that list is mostly bad data, outdated information," LaRose said.
LaRose said deleted voters can on October 7.
LaRose said he's concerned about errors by vendors running voting information databases in Ohio鈥檚 88 counties. He's that would expand the authority of the to certify voting registrations system vendors.
(NOTE: This story has been updated to reflect that the voter registration forms will come from the voting rights groups, not from the Secretary of State's office.)
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