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November 18, 2019: Eight (8) states currently have more registered voters than voting age residents. Another 30 states have individual counties with more voters on the books than voting age residents.[1]
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This is not a case of fraudulent registrations. Instead, it’s the result of state and local governments failing to “make sure that people who have died, moved, or are otherwise ineligible to vote aren’t still on the rolls.” State and local governments are required by federal law to eliminate such problems by providing basic maintenance of their voter lists. However, the law is often ignored.
The scale of the challenge was highlighted by a 2012 Pew Research study showing that 24 million voter registrations are “no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate.” That study found at least 1.8 million dead people were still registered to vote. On top of that, 2.75 million were registered to vote in at least two states.[2]
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The problem is found in all parts of the country, including “areas dominated by Republicans and Democrats.”
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Scott Rasmussen is an editor-at-large for Ballotpedia, the Encyclopedia of American Politics. He is a senior fellow for the study of self-governance at the King’s College in New York. His most recent book, Politics Has Failed: America Will Not
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