LA County Removes 1.2 million Ineligible Voters
in Judicial Watch Lawsuit Settlement
Good news for voters and elections in California. Los Angeles County
removed 1,207,613 ineligible voters from its rolls since last year under
the terms of a settlement agreement
in a federal lawsuit we filed in
2017 (Judicial Watch, Inc.,
et al. v. Dean C. Logan, et al. (No. 2:17-cv-08948)).
We sued on behalf of four lawfully registered voters in Los Angeles County
and the Election Integrity Project California, Inc., a public interest
group involved in monitoring California’s voter rolls.
Under the terms of the settlement agreement,
Los Angeles County sent almost 1.6 million address confirmation notices in
2019 to voters listed as “inactive” on its voter rolls. Under the
federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), voters who do not respond
to the notices and who do not vote in the following two federal elections
must be removed from the voter rolls. The settlement also required an
update to the state’s online NVRA manual to make it clear that ineligible
names must be removed and to notify each California county that they are
obliged to do this.
In the most recent of a series of progress
reports to us, Los Angeles County confirmed that 1,207,613 ineligible
and inactive voters were recently removed from the rolls. Los Angeles
County confirmed last year that more than 634,000 of its inactive voters
hadn’t voted in at least 10 years.
We previously detailed
that Los Angeles County had allowed more than 20% of its registered voters
to become inactive without removing them from the voter list.
This long overdue voter roll clean-up is a historic victory and means
California elections are less at risk for fraud. Building on this success,
we will continue our lawsuits and activism to clean up voter rolls and to
promote and protect cleaner elections.
We are a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights. We have
assembled a team of highly experienced voting rights attorneys who have
stopped discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls in
California, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, among other achievements.
We recently settled 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 going forward to clean its
voter registration lists.
Kentucky also removed
hundreds of thousands of old registrations after it entered into a consent
decree to end another Judicial Watch lawsuit.
In February 2022, we settled a voter roll
clean-up lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its counties after North
Carolina removed over 430,000 inactive registrations from its voter
rolls.
In March 2022, a Maryland court ruled in favor of our
challenge to the Democratic state legislature’s “extreme”
congressional gerrymander.
In May 2022, we sued Illinois on
behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two other registered Illinois voters to
stop 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.
Judicial Watch Sues DHS for Records on Election Censorship
We’re back in court in our continuing quest to unearth the federal
government’s election-related censorship. The more we learn, the more
concerning it becomes.
We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for records of communication related
to the work of the Election Integrity
Partnership (EIP) that could detail coordinated censorship activities
(Judicial Watch, Inc. v.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No.
1:23-cv-00384)).
We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the
Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA), a component of the
Department of Homeland Security, failed to comply with an October 27, 2022,
FOIA request for:
1. All emails, direct messages, task
management alerts, or other records of communication related to the work of
the Election Integrity Partnership sent via the Atlassian Jira platform
between any official or employee of the Cybersecurity and Information
Security Agency and any member, officer, employee, or representative of any
of the following:
- The Election Integrity Partnership
- The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public
- Stanford University’s Internet Observatory
- The Center for Internet Security
- The Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing & Analysis
Center
- The National Association of Secretaries of State
- The National Association of State Election Directors
- Graphika
- The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research
Laboratory
- Any social media company
2. All memoranda of understanding,
guidelines, or similar records related to the Cybersecurity and Information
Security Agency’s use of the Atlassian Jira platform for work related to
the Election Integrity Partnership.
Based on representations from the Election Integrity Partnership (see here and here), the federal
government, social media companies, the EIP, the Center for Internet
Security (a non-profit organization funded partly by DHS and
the Defense Department) and numerous other leftist groups communicated
privately via the Atlassian software
platform called Jira.
In a February 8, 2023, hearing by the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Anna
Paulina Luna (R-FL) revealed information
about federal agencies, social media companies, nonprofits and other
organizations communicating “their version of misinformation using
Jira.” Luna pointed out to Yoel Roth,
then-Twitter’s head of trust and safety who helped suppress the Hunter
Biden laptop story:
On this chart, I want to annotate that the Department of Homeland
Security, which has a following branches, cybersecurity and infrastructure
security agency, also known as CISA Countering Foreign Intelligence Task
Force … [were] used against the American people. The Election Partnership
Institute or Election Integrity Partnership, EIP, which includes the
following, Stanford Internet Observatory, University of Washington Center
for Informed Public, Graphika and Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic
Research Lab. And potentially according to what we found on the final
report by EIP, the DNC, the Center for Internet Security, CISA- a nonprofit
funded by DHS, the National Association of Secretaries of State, also known
as NASS and the National Association of State Election Directors,
NASED.
And in this case, because there are other social media companies
involved, Twitter, what do all of these groups though, have in common? And
I’m going to refresh your memory. They were all communicating on a
private cloud server known as Jira. Now, the screenshot behind screenshot
behind me, which is an example of one of thousands shows on November 3rd,
2020, that you, Mr. Roth, a Twitter employee, were exchanging
communications on Jira, a private cloud server with CISA, NASS, NASED, and
Alex Stamos, who now works at Stanford and is a former security of security
officer at Facebook to remove a posting. Do you now remember communicating
on a private cloud server to remove a posting? Yes or no?
***
Well, I’m going to tell you right now that you did and we have proof of it.
The Elon Musk ‘Twitter Files’ are the tip of the iceberg, as the
federal government ran a massive, secret censorship op against the American
people. That the DHS is hiding these censorship records in violation of
FOIA law shows the agency still has something to hide.
We have been quite active in exposing unlawful election interference.
We are suing the DHS for all
records of communications between the CISA and the EIP, which was reportedly active
during the 2022 midterm elections. Among the news outlets flagged by EIP
were websites for Just the News, New York Post, Fox
News, Washington Examiner, The Washington Times, The
Epoch Times and Breitbart.
We recently sued the DOJ for
records of communications between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
and social media sites regarding foreign influence in elections, as well as
the Hunter Biden laptop story.
In September 2022, we sued the Secretary of
State of the State of California for having YouTube censor a Judicial Watch
election integrity video.
In May 2022, YouTube censored a Judicial Watch video about Biden corruption
and election integrity issues in the 2020 election. The video, titled
“Impeach? Biden Corruption Threatens National Security,” was falsely
determined to be “election misinformation” and removed by YouTube, and
Judicial Watch’s YouTube account was suspended for a week. The video
featured an interview with me. We continue to post our videos on its Rumble
channel (https://rumble.com/vz7aof-fitton-impeach-biden-corruption-threatens-national-security.html).
In April 2021, we published documents revealing how California state officials
pressured social media companies (Twitter, Facebook, Google (YouTube)) to
censor posts about the 2020 election.
In May 2021, we revealed documents showing that Iowa state officials
pressured social media companies Twitter and Facebook to censor posts about
the 2020 election.
In July 2021, we uncovered records from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), which revealed that Facebook coordinated closely with the
CDC to control the COVID narrative and “misinformation” and that over
$3.5 million in free advertising given to the CDC by social media
companies.
Biden Issues Second Order to ‘Further’ Advance Governmentwide Racial
Equity
The Left’s use of the word “equity,” meaning equal outcomes for
different groups, is reminiscent of Karl Marx’s “From each according to
his ability, to each according to his needs.” And Marxist “equity” is
the official policy of the Biden administration, as our Corruption
Chronicles blog reports.
Although the U.S. has already implemented a governmentwide plan to
advance racial equity and support underserved communities under a 2021
Biden executive order, the
president has issued a second directive to strong
arm federal agencies into launching more initiatives that will further tax
Americans. Under the recently issued mandate government agencies have 30
days to establish an “Agency Equity Team” and conduct proactive
engagement with members of underserved communities through culturally and
linguistically appropriate listening sessions. Biden is also creating a
White House Steering Committee on Equity composed of senior officials who
will coordinate the government’s sweeping efforts to promote his leftist
agenda.
“By advancing equity, the Federal
Government can support and empower all Americans, including the many
communities in America that have been underserved, discriminated against,
and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality,” Biden
writes in the new document, adding that “equitability” will rebuild
trust in government. “This order builds upon my previous equity-related
Executive Orders by extending and strengthening equity-advancing
requirements for agencies, and it positions agencies to deliver better
outcomes for the American people,” according to the president. As
examples the commander-in-chief offers building a strong, fair, and
inclusive workforce and economy, investing in communities where federal
policies have historically impeded equal opportunity, mitigating economic
displacement, rooting out discrimination in the housing market, advancing
equity in health, environmental justice and ending “unjust disparities”
in the nation’s criminal justice system.
Additionally, the director of the White
House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will update directives to
“support equitable decision-making, promote equitable deployment of
financial and technical assistance, and assist agencies in advancing
equity, as appropriate and wherever possible,” the new executive order
says. This is important because OMB plays a pivotal role in government by
developing and executing the federal budget, overseeing federal agencies
and executive branch operations, and coordinating all significant federal
regulations. The new order also includes a blueprint to make equity part of
the official federal budget process and specifically prevent discrimination
based on gender identity and sexual orientation. “My Administration has
embedded a focus on equity into the fabric of Federal policymaking and
service delivery,” Biden writes, bragging that his presidency is the most
diverse in our nation’s history.
This month’s executive order is part of a
robust movement by the administration to incorporate racial equity across
all federal agencies. The president launched the plan on his first day in
office with the lengthy executive order to advance racial equity and
support for underserved communities through the government. The 2021
document claims that “entrenched disparities” in laws, public policies,
and private institutions have denied equal opportunity to individuals and
communities and that the health and climate crises have exposed inequities
while a “historic movement for justice has highlighted the unbearable
human costs of systemic racism.” Therefore, the original order states,
the federal government should pursue a “comprehensive approach to
advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who have
been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by
persistent poverty and inequality.” It further says that “by advancing
equity across the Federal Government, we can create opportunities for the
improvement of communities that have been historically underserved, which
benefits everyone.”
Many key federal agencies have taken major
steps to implement racial equity plans as per Biden’s first mandate. The
Department of Justice (DOJ) has formulated a strategy to “advance equity for marginalized and underserved
communities” that, among other things,
directs federal prosecutors to ignore maximum sentencing under the law to
“avoid unwarranted disparities.” The Department of Labor has dedicated
$260 million to promote “equitable access” to government unemployment
benefits by addressing disparities in the administration and delivery of
money by race ethnicity and language proficiency. The Treasury Department
named its first ever racial equity chief, a veteran La Raza official who
spent a decade at the nation’s most influential open borders group. The
Department of Defense (DOD) is using outrageous anti-bias materials that
indoctrinate troops with anti-American and racially inflammatory training
on diversity topics. The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created an
equity commission to address longstanding inequities in agriculture. The
nation’s medical research agency has a special minority health and health
disparities division that issued a study declaring COVID-19 exacerbated
preexisting resentment against racial/ethnic minorities and marginalized
communities.
Until next week …

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