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New York City Removes 441,083 Ineligible Names from Voter Rolls Thanks
to Judicial Watch!

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We just settled
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a federal election integrity lawsuit against New York City after the
city removed 441,083 ineligible names from the voter rolls and
promised to take reasonable steps to clean its voter registration
lists in the future.

We filed the lawsuit
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in July after the city failed to clean voter rolls for years. The
lawsuit, filed under the National Voter Registration Act
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(NVRA), pointed out that New York City removed only 22 names under
federal law over six years (_Judicial Watch v Valentine et al._
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(No.1:22-cv-03952)).

Our suit detailed how New York City’s “own recent data concedes
that there were only 22 total” removals under this provision
“during a six-year period, in a city of over 5.5 million voters.
These are ludicrously small numbers of removals given the sizable
populations of these counties.”

Moreover, the “almost complete failure of Kings, Queens, New York,
Bronx, and Richmond Counties, over a period of at least six years, to
remove voters” under a key provision of federal law “means that
there are untold numbers of New York City registrations for voters who
are ineligible to vote at their listed address because they have
changed residence or are otherwise ineligible to vote.”

The settlement details how the city responded to our notice about its
voting roll deficiencies with a massive clean-up:

> [The Board of Elections] notified Judicial Watch that, in February
> 2022, they removed, pursuant to Section 8(d)(1)(B) of the NVRA,
> 82,802 registrations in Bronx County, 128,093 in Kings County,
> 145,891 in New York County, 66,010 in Queens County, and 18,287 in
> Richmond County, for a total of 441,083 registrations.
>
> [The Board of Elections] notified Judicial Watch that going forward
> they intend to cancel registrations pursuant to Section 8(d)(1)(B)
> in each odd-numbered year in the months following a federal
> election.
Specifically, the city also agrees to track in detail and report its
voter roll maintenance efforts through 2025:

> For both 2023 and 2025 … the [Board of Elections] will notify
> Judicial Watch … on or before March 31, by means of separate excel
> spreadsheets for Bronx County, Kings County, New York County, Queens
> County, and Richmond County, of the number of removals, including
> removals pursuant to … the NVRA, made during the previous two
> years.
The NVRA requires states to “conduct a general program that makes a
reasonable effort to remove” from the rolls “the names of
ineligible voters” who have died or changed residence. Among other
things, the law requires registrations to be cancelled when voters
fail to respond to address confirmation notices and then fail to vote
in the next two general federal elections. In 2018, the Supreme Court
confirmed that such removals are mandatory (_Husted v. A. Philip
Randolph Inst_
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(138 S.
Ct. 1833, 1841-42 (2018)).

This historic settlement is a major victory for New York voters who
will benefit from cleaner voter rolls and more honest elections. We
are pleased that New York City officials quickly acted to remove
441,000 outdated registrations from the rolls. We look forward to
working together under this federal lawsuit settlement to ensure New
York City maintains cleaner rolls for future elections.

We are a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights. As
part of our work, we assembled a team of highly experienced voting
rights attorneys who stopped discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and
cleaned up voter rolls in California, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky,
among other achievements
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California settled
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an NVRA lawsuit with us and began the process of removing up to 1.6
million inactive names from Los Angeles County’s voter rolls.
Kentucky
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began a cleanup of hundreds of thousands of old registrations last
year after it entered into a consent decree to end another Judicial
Watch lawsuit.

In February 2022, we settled
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a
voter roll clean-up lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its
counties after North Carolina removed over 430,000 ineligible names
from the voter rolls.

In March 2022, a Maryland court ruled in favor
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of our challenge to Maryland’s Democratic legislature’s
“extreme” congressional redistricting gerrymander.

In May 2022, we sued
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Illinois on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two other registered
Illinois voters to prevent state election officials from extending
Election Day for 14 days beyond the date established by federal law.

Robert Popper, Judicial Watch senior attorney, leads our election law
program. Popper was previously in the Voting Section of the Civil
Rights Division of the Justice Department, where he managed voting
rights investigations, litigations, consent decrees, and settlements
in dozens of states.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

As we welcome the new year, we recall a few of our successes in 2022:

> We made it more likely that voters in North Carolina
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> will have cleaner elections, and we are making headway for voters in
> Illinois
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by
> challenging its election law permitting mail-in ballots to be
> received as long as two weeks after Election Day.

> We scored a win
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against
> two unconstitutional California quota mandates for sex, race,
> ethnicity, and LGBT status requirements for corporate boards.
>
> We continue to uncover
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> unsettling information regarding COVID-19, including the Biden
> administration’s extensive media plan
>
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for a
> propaganda campaign to push the vaccine.
I anticipate that Judicial Watch will carry its largest and most
important caseload in our 29-year history into 2023 and engage our
full arsenal of research, investigations and litigation into
critically important public policy fronts. For example, uncovering
critical race theory in our public institutions:

We successfully settled a civil rights lawsuit
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that we filed on behalf of a Massachusetts teacher who lost his
position as head football coach after raising concerns about the
promotion of critical race theory and Black Lives Matter propaganda in
his daughter’s seventh-grade history class.

We uncovered
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critical
race theory instructional materials from the U.S. Military Academy,
West Point, including a PowerPoint slide with a graphic titled
“MODERN-DAY SLAVERY IN THE USA.” We are pursuing similar lawsuits
against the U.S. Naval Academy
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and the U.S. Air Force Academy
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to see if
they are teaching similar racist, anti-American propaganda.
We’re certainly eager to learn more about Hunter Biden
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and
apparent efforts by the administration to block investigations.

After the Allied victory over Hitler in 1945, but before the victory
over Japan, Winston Churchill found himself in a similar situation of
looking both back and forward. He declared
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“We may allow ourselves
a brief period of rejoicing, but let us not forget for a moment the
toil and efforts that lie ahead.”

Dark clouds hang over our country, but they only motivate us. As
Churchill also observed, “This is no time for ease and comfort. It
is time to dare and endure.”

We are grateful that you are with us as we enter 2023. All of us wish
you and yours a Happy New Year!

I hope you’ll make a special New Year’s contribution in
support of our essential work ahead.

Until next week …





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