Over 54,000 electors exist in Cuyahoga County with an invalid Registration Date of 1/1/1900; over 40,000 of them voted in the August 2023 election. Since voter eligibility is dependent on a valid Registration Date, it is necessary to address and correct this issue to ensure all of these electors are qualified as eligible electors, as required by federal and state law.
Many thousands of electors across Ohio voted in the November 2020 election with a Registration Date after the deadline to be eligible to vote in the November 2020 election per federal law [1]. There were around 6,000 of them in Butler County alone. By law, these voter registrations were not eligible to vote in the November 2020 election; however, all of the votes were certified.
It was determined a flaw in the administration of voter registrations caused Registration Date to be updated when an elector moved to a new precinct in Ohio; however, there has never been any government reporting to reconcile that every vote cast with a Registration Date after the deadline to register and vote in the November 2020 election was indeed cast by eligible electors who moved, which caused the Registration Date to update.
A remedy to this Registration Date flaw was addressed in The DATA Act integrated into HB33 and signed into law in July, 2023 to address this issue when entering or updating Registration Date; however, LSC reports the deadline to implement The DATA Act provisions is JAN 1 2025, leaving the MAR 2024 and NOV 2024 elections still vulnerable to malfeasance once again due to the existing flaw in Registration Date on elector voter records, and still doesn’t address the tens of thousands of invalid Registration Dates in Cuyahoga County.
[1] NVRA 52 U.S. Code § 20507(a) In the administration of voter registration for elections for Federal office, each State shall—
(1) ensure that any eligible applicant is registered to vote in an election—
(A) in the case of registration with a motor vehicle application under section 20504 of this title, if the valid voter registration form of the applicant
is submitted to the appropriate State motor vehicle authority not later than the lesser of 30 days, or the period provided by State law, before
the date of the election;
(B) in the case of registration by mail under section 20505 of this title, if the valid voter registration form of the applicant is postmarked not later
(C) in the case of registration at a voter registration agency, if the valid voter registration form of the applicant is accepted at the voter
registration agency not later than the lesser of 30 days, or the period provided by State law, before the date of the election; and