Ohio’s elections will only be open to United States citizens following the passing of a state constitutional amendment Tuesday.
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The Buckeye State’s voters overwhelmingly chose to ban noncitizens from voting in state and local elections in Issue 2, an election integrity initiative on this year’s ballot, with more than 77% approval as of early Wednesday and just 8% of precincts left to report.
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The amendment established that “only a citizen of the United States, who is at least 18 years of age and who has been a legal resident and registered voter for at least 30 days, can vote at any state or local election held in this state.”
Heading into the midterm elections, Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose touted the amendment.
“It’s a bad idea to callously give away the right to vote to people that haven’t earned it,” LaRose said at an October news conference. “I think that citizenship has value, citizenship has status. So many of our ancestors worked so hard to earn that citizenship.”
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Ohio becomes the seventh state to adopt the “only citizens” voting requirement to its constitution, joining Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, and North Dakota.
