'Egregious': GOP official under fire for handing voter data for millions to Trump DOJ

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

March 10, 2026 3:40PM ET


Ohio Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Clyde has condemned Secretary of State Frank LaRose's decision to transfer the sensitive voter registration data of nearly 8 million Ohioans to the U.S. Department of Justice, according to Democracy Docket.

The Republican official complied with a DOJ request seeking complete statewide voter rolls, including personally identifying information such as birthdates, addresses, driver's license numbers, and Social Security numbers. The agency claims the data is necessary to investigate how states maintain their voter rolls.

Clyde called the move "unacceptable," accusing LaRose of putting politics over voters' privacy rights. “Frank LaRose’s failure to protect Ohio voters’ privacy by turning over our voter registration info to the DOJ is unacceptable,” she wrote on social media. “The Ohio Democratic Party is exploring all options to fight back against this egregious abuse of power.”

LaRose justified the transfer in a letter to the DOJ, framing it as necessary for election integrity and accurate voter roll maintenance. He acknowledged the data represents merely a "static snapshot" that cannot perfectly reflect Ohio's constantly changing voter database. “The list I am sending you, however, is a static snapshot,” LaRose wrote. “At no point in time will I be able to give the Department a demonstrably perfect image of our database.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/ohio-election-2676008335/

[hlthe2b]

1. Voters need to sue in a class action. They should have already been lining up the suit to try to

get a judicial stay to prevent transfer, but somehow I doubt anyone was that farsighted. Damn. Ohioans will rue the day they elected that MAGA SOB.

[lonely bird]

2. Sigh

My state has become so fucking stupid.

[ananda]

5. Sorry about that.

Now you know what it's like to be in Texas.

Texas turned over its rolls months ago.

[Dr. T]

3. It's my understanding that the feds have zero jurisdiction

in elections. I might be wrong. I believe there's only one reason this administration wants that information and it has nothing to do with voting integrity. It's voter intimidation.

[patphil]

4. If you aren't a republican and vote in Ohio, you'd better verify your status before the last date that you can change it

They'll disenfranchise you on as late a date as they can so you can't fix it before the election.