COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio is the latest battleground in the national fight over how Americans register to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

A federal lawsuit has challenged our new state law, which requires BMV clerks to confirm a customer is a U.S. citizen before offering to register them to vote.

The suit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

The rule, tucked into Ohio’s transportation budget, changed a decades-long practice of requiring sworn statements.

The lawsuit argues that this violates the National Voter Registration Act, often called the “Motor Voter” law, which requires BMVs to offer registration and bars states from adding burdensome proof-of-citizenship rules to the process.

Secretary of State Frank LaRose called the lawsuit baseles

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