The Judicial Watch lawsuit
detailed that 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.” |