(Columbus) – Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose issued the following statement today regarding the General Assembly’s passage of legislation to ban foreign funding in Ohio elections:
“As I’ve said, Ohioans deserve confidence in the integrity of our elections. Although there’s been a concentrated effort to confuse this issue through aggressive soccer-flopping and misinformation, this matter is simple: foreign nationals should not be able to interfere with our elections. The legislation passed today takes an aggressive step toward banning foreign nationals from funding Ohio elections and further cements Ohio's standing as a national leader on election integrity. I applaud the General Assembly for moving quickly to close this campaign finance loophole and I call on every state, as well as Congress, to pass similar measures.”
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