As chairman of the state government and elections committee, he introduced a bill to require voters to produce state-issued photo identification in order to vote.
Mecklenborg served as solicitor and prosecutor for the Cleves, a village in Hamilton County with a population of 2,735 and a land area of 1.58 sq.
[2] He is also a former law director and a former assistant county prosecutor for the city of Cheviot, a residential suburb of Cincinnati.
[3] He is a member of the executive and central committees of the Hamilton County, Ohio Republican Party.
[3] With the endorsement of the Hamilton County Republican Party, Mecklenborg was appointed to succeed Bill Seitz in the 30th House District in the Ohio legislature in 2007.