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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.

The group believes Sec. of State Frank LaRose does have the power to authorize more boxes per county to make voting easier and more accessible.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has reissued a contentious order limiting the number of ballot drop boxes to one per county for the May 4 primary.The…

A near record number of Ohioans were registered to vote in 2020. Now 97,795 voter registrations have been removed from the rolls during what Ohio…

Post-election audits found vanishingly few errors in November’s vote counts across Ohio, according to data released by Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Tuesday. Since November, county election staff have recounted ballots by hand in a selection of precincts, focusing on three races: the presidential race, one Ohio Supreme Court race and a countywide race. In the presidential contest, the audits matched official results by 99.98 percent on average.

Ohio's 18 electors were pledged to Donald Trump on Monday in a process prescribed by law and with lots of formality, but little suspense. At the same…

Since the general election, election officials are predicting absentee voting will become even more popular in the future. But voting advocates say voters…

While votes are still being counted, Tuesday’s election process was mostly a smooth one, according to Ohio voting rights groups. A few problems were reported to the groups’ voter assistance hotlines – things like delays at polling places, the sometimes poorly executed expansion of curbside voting and scattered incidents of voter intimidation. But mostly the huge statewide turnout and early voting numbers that dwarfed any previous years were seen as a success.