Ohio Joins States Suing for Immigrant Data Ahead of Election (1)

Ohio’s Republican secretary of state sued the Department of Homeland Security in his quest to purge an unnamed number of suspected noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls, saying the federal government is unlawfully withholding key immigration-related information.

While states have access to DHS’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE database, Secretary of State Frank LaRose claims that’s insufficient to verify most people’s citizenship status because it doesn’t contain driver’s license or Social Security numbers.

LaRose sought immigration and citizenship verification records beyond what’s in the SAVE database so the state could verify the citizenship of specific registered voters whose ...