Posted on 01/03/2020 3:00:02 PM PST by jazusamo
Judicial Watch Finds 2.5 Million ‘Extra’ Registrants on Voting Rolls – Warns Five States to Clean Up Voting Rolls or Face a Federal Lawsuit
A Glance Back As We Move Forward
Judicial Watch Finds 2.5 Million ‘Extra’ Registrants on Voting Rolls – Warns Five States to Clean Up Voting Rolls or Face a Federal Lawsuit
One of the most important things we can do in this election year is continue to force states and counties across the nation to comply with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 ( NVRA ).
And we are. We have sent notice-of-violation letters to 19 large counties in five states that we intend to sue unless they take steps to comply with the law and remove ineligible voter registrations within 90 days. Section 8 of the act requires jurisdictions to take reasonable efforts to remove ineligible registrations from their rolls.
Despite our successful litigation to bring counties and states into compliance with the NVRA, voter registration lists across the country remain significantly out of date. According to our analysis of data released by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) this year, 378 counties nationwide have more voter registrations than citizens old enough to vote, i.e., counties where registration rates exceed 100%.
These 378 counties combined had about 2.5 million registrations over the 100%-registered mark, which is a drop of about one million from our previous analysis of voter registration data. Although San Diego County removed 500,000 inactive names from voter rolls following our settlement with Los Angeles County, San Diego still has a registration rate of 117% and has one of the highest registration rates in the county.
Judicial Watch Attorney Robert Popper is the director of our Election Integrity initiative. In the latest round of warning letters, we explain that implausibly high registration rates raise legal concerns:
An unusually high registration rate suggests that a jurisdiction is not removing voters who have died or who have moved elsewhere, as required by [federal law].
Judicial Watch also considers how many registrations were ultimately removed from the voter rolls because a registrant [had moved]. If few or no voters were removed…the jurisdiction is obviously failing to comply . . . States must report the number of such removals to the EAC.
We found major voting list issues in California , Pennsylvania , North Carolina , Virginia , and Colorado . The following counties have excessive registration rates or have failed to cancel sufficient numbers of ineligible registrations:
Colorado
Jefferson County
California
Imperial County
Monterey County
Orange County
Riverside County
San Diego County
San Francisco County
San Mateo County
Santa Clara County
Solano County
Stanislaus County
Yolo County
North Carolina
Guilford County
Mecklenburg County
Virginia
Fairfax County
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County
Bucks County
Chester County
Delaware County
We are the national leader in enforcing the NVRA, which requires states to take reasonable steps to clean their rolls.
In 2018, the Supreme Court upheld a massive voter roll clean up that resulted from our settlement of a federal lawsuit with Ohio. California also settled a similar lawsuit with us that last year began the process of removing up to 1.5 million “inactive” names from Los Angeles County voting rolls. Kentucky also began a cleanup of up to 250,00 names last year after it entered into a consent decree to end another Judicial Watch lawsuit.
Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections and we will insist, in court if necessary, that states follow federal law to clean up their voting rolls. Our previous lawsuits have already led to major cleanups in California, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio – but more needs to be done. It is common sense that voters who die or move away be removed from the voting rolls.
A Glance Back as We Move Forward
“Study the past if you would define the future,” Confucius said.
How fitting that we begin 2020 with a stark reminder of one of the most shameful episodes in American history: the former president of the United States and his secretary of state, with mourning family members present, staring into TV cameras and lying to the American people about the slaughter at Benghazi.
We were reminded of that amoral embarrassment as President Trump, without hesitation, reacted by first immediately deploying troops to protect our embassy in Baghdad and then by ordering the attack that eliminated the leading terrorist leader for Iran and several other terror leaders. What a contrast!
I called attention to his action this week on Twitter , reminding people of all that Judicial Watch has uncovered about Benghazi. Our lawsuit on Clinton’s handling of Benghazi led directly to the discovery of her illicit email system. Thanks to your support, we exposed this scandal, which precipitated successive scandals involving a corrupt FBI and DOJ that refused to investigate her seriously.
We are now awaiting a judge’s permission to depose Hillary Clinton personally and under oath.
As we look forward 2020, it is worth recalling our successes in 2019. You can get a quick review of them here on my Twitter account or here onJudicial Watch’s Twitter or Facebook accounts. And here is a series of “ best of ” video and press release links from throughout the year.
This work gives me confidence for the future!
Happy New Year!
Until next week …
Yes, and they do a good job.
I agree. Judicial Watch has been doing a great job for quite some time.
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Find the movers in Fairfax County and publicize nn number of movers and n number of dead on the rolls in precinct 1. mm number in precinct 2. LL number in precinct 3.
Don’t name names (unless you haver really done your homework) but have the names of the movers privately.
It’s called being a precinct worker in IL. One side does it to know who they can impersonate. The other side tries to prevent it. Or in the cases of the Beaver-Jackson race, both sides tried to outdo each other.
Find the movers in Fairfax County and publicize nn number of movers and n number of dead on the rolls in precinct 1. mm number in precinct 2. LL number in precinct 3.
Don’t name names (unless you haver really done your homework) but have the names of the movers privately.
It’s called being a precinct worker in IL. One side does it to know who they can impersonate. The other side tries to prevent it. Or in the cases of the Beaver-Jackson race, both sides tried to outdo each other.
Are they really wanting it to come down to who is willing to shoot the bastards first?
I'm just going to come right out and say that I am no longer willing to support the entire concept of "the law is the law" when it only seems to matter when it is applied to citizens as opposed to those to allegedly "work for us".
From the JW web site:
“Add to that, no absentee ballots except for military, paper ballots that are retained for recounts...”
During the Bush/Gore recount (hanging chaff) the military absentee votes were conveniently lost and never recovered nor counted.
We were in fll protesting that garbage.
Is what refilled me to the media and their lies and motivated me to register at FR 19 years ago
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