Happy New Year!
[WEEKLY UPDATE]
JUDICIAL WATCH FINDS 2.5 MILLION ‘EXTRA’ REGISTRANTS ON VOTING
ROLLS – WARNS FIVE STATES TO CLEAN UP VOTING ROLLS OR FACE A FEDERAL
LAWSUIT
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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
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And we are. We have sent notice-of-violation letters
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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remain significantly out of date.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
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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
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Pennsylvania
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North
Carolina
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Virginia
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and Colorado
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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
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a
massive voter roll clean up that resulted from our settlement of a
federal lawsuit with Ohio. California also settled
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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
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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
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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
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reminding
people of all that Judicial Watch has uncovered about Benghazi. Our
lawsuit on Clinton’s handling of Benghazi led directly to the
discovery
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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 to 2020, it is worth recalling our successes in
2019. You can get a quick review of them here
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on my Twitter account or here on
Judicial Watch’s
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Twitter or
Facebook
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accounts. And here
is a series of “best of
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video and press release
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links from throughout the year.
This work gives me confidence for the future!
Happy New Year!
Until next week …
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