LaRose launches new election history data dashboard
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced this week the launch of a new data dashboard designed to help citizens better analyze past election results and statewide voting trends.
The new resource is part of an ongoing effort to improve the retention and transparency of electronic election data through the 2022 passage of the DATA Act, a landmark law that created a full-time Office of Data Analytics and Archives in the Secretary of State’s office.
“You shouldn’t have to dig through piles of complicated spreadsheets to be a well-informed citizen,” said Secretary LaRose. “Election integrity starts with transparency. Before I took office, we had no legal requirement to retain electronic election data. We passed historic legislation to fix that, and Ohio now leads the nation in archiving and disclosing our voting records.”
In addition to statewide data, the new dashboard displays county-level data from Ohio's 88 county boards of elections going back to the 2016 primary election. The dashboard will update each time the Ohio Secretary of State and Ohio's 88 county board of elections certify an election's final results. The dashboard builds on a growing platform of data tools created to make government more efficient and transparent.
• In October 2024, Secretary LaRose launched a new Absentee and Early Voting Dashboard to help analyze voting trends and statistics more effectively during the early voting period. This tool is currently active for the May 6 election.
• In February 2025, Secretary LaRose launched a daily voter registration snapshot portal to provide daily updates of voter registration changes across Ohio's 88 counties, including new registrations, updates and removals from voter rolls.
• This month, Secretary LaRose launched enhanced dashboard tools in the office’s Data Integrity Program to help all 88 county boards of elections correct data discrepancies for more accurate voter rolls. During the first 60 days of using the expanded data integrity dashboard, six pilot county boards resolved nearly 97 percent of the issues we flagged. The boards have been able to remedy these records 50 times faster with this tool than they did under previous methods.
Learn more about the tools and the Office of Data Analytics and Archives at OhioSoS.gov/Data.
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