Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose unveiled legislation Wednesday that would clarify and standardize the way election data is organized, stored and shared across the state, a proposal that the Republican says can serve as a national model in addressing the “crisis of confidence” in American elections.
“It's a question of, ‘Do we even all speak the same language about what constitutes a registered voter, what constitutes a voted ballot?’” LaRose, the state's elections chief, said during a Statehouse news conference. “All of these kinds of things are various, not only across Ohio's 88 counties, but across the 50 states, and the really thousands of jurisdictions that conduct elections in this country."
