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Ohio's Secretary of State, who always touts the integrity of Ohio elections, chose to spend last weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an event full of election deniers and conspiracy theorists.

The proposal's sponsor, State Rep. Brian Stewart (R-Asheville), defended the proposal Tuesday on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher.

Secretary of State Frank LaRose said the bill from Sen. Teresa Gavarone (R-Bowling Green) will bring more transparency to election data reporting and standardize the process for county boards of elections.

The filing comes a day after the Secretary of State said legislative races would be removed from the primary ballot unless there was quick action by the federal court.

Because there are no valid maps for state legislative districts, those races won't appear on the ballot unless a federal court gets involved almost immediately.

Ohio has another hurdle to clear for the May 3 primary after the federal government rejected a request to delay the delivery of overseas and military voter ballots.

Chelsea Clark, a Forest Park council member who grew up on an Allen County farm, is the only Democrat willing to take on Republican incumbent Frank LaRose for Ohio Secretary of State.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has launched his 2022 reelection bid. The 42-year-old Republican touted the state’s smooth 2020 election in a one-minute video released Monday.

The Ohio Supreme Court on Monday ruled Secretary of State Frank LaRose was within his rights to block a Lorain County Democrat from serving on the board of elections.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose this week placed the Summit County Board of Elections under administrative supervision and blocked the reappointment of one board member, citing failures in the 2020 election and prior years. Those failures include errors in the removal of dead residents from the voter rolls. Over the last few months, the board has been investigating how it failed to catch – and then counted – a ballot cast in the name of one woman who died before the November election.