TOLEDO, Ohio —
More than 150,000 voters in Ohio are at risk of having their voter registration removed because of mismatched addresses, according to a database from the secretary of state.
Of those voters, more than 6,000 are in Lucas County, according to the board of elections.
The Lucas County BOE has been working with the state since May to contact those voters.
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LaVera Scott, director of the board, says of the more than 6,100 notices that have been mailed out, nearly 2,700 were returned as "undeliverable," while about 1,300 voters have responded with their updated addresses.
If voters don't respond by July 22, they risk being removed from the state's database.
"You're going to be assumed that you are still going to be inactive and those will probably be the ones removed by the state," Scott said.
The removal process is for organizational purposes, Scott says, and is routine for the state.
"The removal of people that, I believe, they're saying have not updated their address, or maybe they relocated out of state, it just allows you to have a clean database," she said.
In a statement, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said, "This work is not only critical to keeping our elections honest, but it's also essential in making sure our election officials can properly plan for the right number of ballots, voting machines, polling places and poll workers."
To check your registration status or to see if you are at risk of being removed from the database, click here.
If your voter registration is removed, you can still re-register for the Nov. 5 federal election by Oct. 7.