Rule 111:3-4-03 | Removing canceled voter registration records.
(A) A board of elections shall not cancel a voter registration record except as provided in section 111.44, division (Q) of section 3501.05, division (C)(2) or (C)(3) of section 3503.19, section 3503.21, division (C) of section 3503.24, and section 3503.33 of the Revised Code, and in accordance with any directive issued by the secretary of state.
(B) If a board of elections cancels a voter registration record, the board shall assign to a voter registration record a status that prohibits the voter registration system from printing any information contained in the voter registration record onto pollbooks and that prohibits insertion into the voter record credit for voting in any election.
(C) Upon the cancellation of a voter registration record, the board of elections must change the status of the voter registration record in the county voter registration system to indicate that the voter record was cancelled.
(1) After cancelling the voter registration record in the county voter registration system, the county board of elections shall transmit electronically the update to the status of the voter record to the statewide voter registration database.
(2) Cancelled voter registration records shall be marked accordingly in the statewide voter registration database.
(D) A board of elections shall not eliminate from its county voter registration system a voter registration record that has been cancelled in the county voter registration system or otherwise cause any data from any field of the cancelled voter registration record to become inaccessible.
Last updated March 28, 2022 at 2:23 PM
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