Posted on 02/04/2020 9:23:15 AM PST by jazusamo
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding the Iowa secretary of state misleading Americans and state residents about the accuracy of Iowa’s registration rolls:
It is shameful that the secretary state of Iowa would mislead Iowans and Americans about the accuracy of the state’s registration rolls.
Judicial Watch’s analysis of Iowa’s state registration rolls is based on official voter registration data provided by Iowa to the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) for publication in 2019. Data concerning such registrations must be reported to the EAC by law under federal regulation 11 C.F.R. § 9428.7.
Based on this federal data, Judicial Watch found eight counties with registration rates over 100% of the voting age population. The next reliable report on Iowa’s registration rolls won’t occur until after the November election, as the EAC’s next report will be released in 2021.
The Iowa secretary of state’s release of interim voter registration data further confirms our concerns and shows that five of the eight counties we listed are still over 100%. Nearly three dozen counties have a registration rate over 95% of the voter age population, which is extraordinarily high. Our data has proven to be a strong indicator of voter registration issues and a basis for further inquiry. Based on lawsuits alleging the same voter registration issues, Judicial Watch has obtained three statewide settlement agreements, including a consent decree in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 2018 and a settlement with Los Angeles County and the State of California in 2019.
California last year began the process of removing up to 1.5 million “inactive” names from Los Angeles County voter rolls. Kentucky also began a cleanup of up to 150,000 names last year. In 2018, the Supreme Court upheld a voter roll clean up in Ohio that resulted from a Judicial Watch settlement. A federal court ordered the State of Maryland to produce voter list data for its largest county based on the work of Judicial Watch. Our approach has survived federal court scrutiny in four states.
Iowa’s Secretary of State and local officials need to clean up the election rolls and reassure voters that the state’s election process is being administered in compliance with federal law and common sense.
Banana Republic.
God bless JW. Doing the work the feckless GOPe should be doing.
Go Tom! At least Fitton and his people are doing something useful regarding election integrity. Dubya should have had people all over this after the 2000 FL shenanigans. Better late than never.
Calling Tom a LIAR is definitely fighting words. I love these guys.
One time ping on Tom Fitton rebuttal.
I find the inclusion of Lyon County odd, but then again, maybe George and Rock Rapids are nothing but Mexican restaurants and bodegas these days.
I love those, FRiend! :^)
The three largest of the eight counties listed by Judicial Watch are Dallas County (suburban Des Moines), Scott County (Davenport/Quad Cities), and Johnson County (Iowa City - University of Iowa); the other five are substantially smaller and look mostly rural.
Those three bigger ones, though, appear to be ripe for the kind of fraud that’s standard in states like New York and Illinois. Johnson County is especially worrisome - college towns are notorious for student registrations that are questionable.
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What a great evening/night and morning for our side!
looks like nanner is drinking the same stuff as the hildabeast
PLEASE STOP posting that FAKE PICTURE...its NOT PELOSI!!
Shades of the 100% +++ counties that reported results for Obama in 2012, and the Ohio counties that showed ALL the votes cast were for Obama-—NOT a SINGLE ONE for Romney.
I am NOT a Romney fan, but as a life long bookkeeper, I am smart enough to know that neither of those scenarios is statistically possible.
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