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Robert Sprague

Ohio Secretary of State

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Civil Rights Work with credit bureaus and financial services companies to obtain real-time information on individuals to update and maintain voter registration rolls. Civil Rights Ohio will be a paper ballot state with a verifiable, auditable paper trail from which voters can confirm their choices are accurate before their vote is tabulated. Civil Rights Next steps are to partner with Vivek Ramaswamy to launch a bold new civics education push—teaching Ohio’s next generation about their rights, their responsibilities, and the hard truth that freedom survives only if you fight for it. When young Americans know the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and what’s at stake, they’ll stand up—and show up—at the ballot box. Civil Rights File an annual report to the legislature detailing the Secretary’s voter registration maintenance procedures. Civil Rights Next steps are to work with the Trump Administration to obtain access to federal citizenship data with the end goal of giving Ohio’s boards of elections the ability to verify an individual’s citizenship status when they attempt to register to vote, not after they enter the database. Civil Rights Next steps are to require a bipartisan panel of boards of elections officials to review all processes and chains-of-custody requirements after every election to ensure every federal and state rule and law was followed throughout the process. Civil Rights Work with the Trump Administration to share critical federal data with the states, especially citizenship data from DHS.

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