Only the federal government definitively knows who is and who is not a U.S. citizen.  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.

Ohio can be proud of the fact that bipartisan officials audit every election, every time, and invariably find that election results are 99.9% accurate.  The same scrutiny and evaluation that we apply to the election results should be applied to the myriad processes and components of the voting process that go into the final tally, from the mailing of military overseas ballots to the certification of election results. 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. 

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.

Next steps are to ensure the voter list isin compliance with the Ohio Constitution, Article V requirement that electors be “a resident of the state” and that “any elector who fails to vote in at least one election during any period of four consecutive years shall cease to be an elector.”

Next Steps:

• Work with the Trump Administration to share critical federal data with the states, especially citizenship data from DHS.

• Work with credit bureaus and financial services companies to obtain real-time information on individuals to update and maintain voter registration rolls.

• File an annual report to the legislature detailing the Secretary’s voter registration maintenance procedures.

We can’t have a strong democracy without informed citizens. 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.