Ohio nearly purged 10,000 voters who ended up casting 2020 ballots

List of 116,000 people set to be removed from rolls after election included thousands of eligible voters

More than 10,000 people who Ohio believed had abandoned" their voter registration cast ballots in the 2020 election, raising more concern that officials are using an unreliable and inaccurate method to identify ineligible voters on the state's rolls.

In August, Ohio's Republican secretary of state, Frank LaRose, released a list of 115,816 people who were set to be purged after the November election because the election officials in each of Ohio's 88 counties flagged them as inactive. Voters could remove their name from the list by taking a number of election-related actions, including voting, requesting an absentee ballot, or simply confirming their voter registration information.