VRM in the States: Ohio
Ohio currently has the Same Day Registration and Portability components of Voter Registration Modernization in place. Ohio also has electronic pollbooks in at least one county.
Registered voters who have moved within the state can cast a ballot that counts on Election Day even if they had not previously updated their registration information before showing up at the polls. These voters can go to their new polling place (corresponding to their current address) to cast a provisional ballot that will count. The provisional ballot will serve as their change of address form. For more on portable registration in Ohio, please refer to our Brennan Center report [pdf] on permanent voter registration.
In addition, the Secretary of State has announced a new service that will for the first time allow Ohio voters to change their voting address online—a modernizing reform that could allow hundreds of thousands of Ohio voters to cast regular ballots instead of provisional ones and will result in cost savings for the Board of Elections.
