Election crimes undermine our republic and demand swift justice. But investigations stall over everything from scarce resources to political agendas. Without meaningful enforcement, even the best election laws are meaningless. Across the country, states are stepping up to fix this by creating specialized election crime investigation units.

Currently, Ohio lawmakers are considering a bill to get viable election fraud cases to court without unnecessary delay.

This is Ohio’s second try at this commonsense fix. In 2022, Secretary of State Frank LaRose created Ohio’s first-ever Public Integrity Division with a mission to investigate election crimes and enhance coordination with local prosecutors and the attorney general.

Last year, legislators passed a law making a specialized investigative unit permanent. The law also set deadlines for local prosecutors to act on election fraud cases referred from the unit or pass the cases to the attorney general. (RELATED: RNC Responds To 28 Bomb Threats, Nearly 500 Tips Of Suspicious Election Activity)

The governor vetoed those deadlines and the referral process. Fortunately, lawmakers aren’t backing down—and they shouldn’t.

Some criminal cases do not get filed for legitimate reasons like missing witnesses or weak evidence, but, all too often, election fraud cases get stuck for completely unacceptable reasons like partisan politics.

For example in 2022, 

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