COLUMBUS, Ohio — The U.S. Department of Justice is demanding voter and election information from the Ohio Secretary of State.

10TV obtained two letters sent to Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office in August. The first letter was sent Aug. 6 and the second was sent Aug. 14.

The first letter comes from Michael Gates, deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division.

It starts “We write to you as the chief election official for the State of Ohio to request Ohio’s statewide voter registration list and information regarding Ohio’s procedures for complying with the statewide voter registration list maintenance provisions of the National Voter Registration Act.”

The letter also states that the DOJ reached out to LaRose’s office in July requesting the same information “for pu

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