Washington, D.C. In response to judicial watchdog’s legal challenges, officials are purging more than 100,000 ineligible names from the voter rolls.
“We sent notice letters to election officials in the District of Columbia, California, and Illinois, notifying them of evident violations of the National Voter Registration Act(NVRA) of 1993, based on their failure to remove inactive voters from their registration rolls,” Judicial Watch announced on Friday.
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“In response to our inquiries, Washington, DC, officials admitted that they had not complied with the NVRA, promptly removed 65,544 outdated names from the voting rolls, promised to remove 37,962 more, and designated another 73,522 registrations as ‘inactive’,” the announcement noted.
A letter was sent to the District of Columbia informing it that all voter registrations had been cancelled for failing to reply to an address confirmation notice and for not casting a ballot in two consecutive general federal elections during the previous two-year reporting period.
- DC explicitly admitted in correspondence with Judicial Watch that it was not fulfilling its duty to terminate registrations in accordance with the NVRA. Staffing shortages, other relevant issues, and difficulties with data conversion are among the reasons given for this failure.
- Based on recent census data, the voter registration rate in Washington, DC, is more than 131% of the estimated population of voting age.
The following is stated in the notification letter that Judicial Watch and the California Libertarian Party sent to California:
- The results of the survey conducted in California show that many counties have taken steps to eliminate low voter registration rates. In actuality, no voter registrations were canceled in the majority of these counties. People who failed to vote in two consecutive general federal elections and who did not reply to an address confirmation notice were the reasons behind this action.
- Nineteen more California counties did not submit any information about removals.
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- According to recent census estimates, there are more voter registrations than there are residents over the age of 18 in twenty-one counties in California.
Many California counties failed to provide the required data or deleted a few registrations in order to comply with the NVRA’s change of address provisions. In these counties, over 14 million voters are registered to vote.
Illinois received the following notice letter:
- In the last two years, a sizable portion of voter registrations in Illinois have been cancelled because voters failed to show up for consecutive general federal elections and did not respond appropriately to address confirmation notices. Twenty-three Illinois counties reported removing fewer than fifteen registrations, and nearly half of those counties removed none at all, according to the EAC survey.
- Simply put, thirty-four Illinois jurisdictions failed to submit any information regarding these removals.
- There are more voter registrations than there are people of voting age in fifteen Illinois jurisdictions.
57 Illinois counties that were subject to the NVRA’s change of address removal procedures either deleted 15 or fewer voter registrations, or provided no data at all. In these counties, there are presently five million people registered to vote.
“Dirty voter rolls increase the potential for voter fraud,” the judicial watchdog notes. “As Washington, DC’s, quick cleanup of tens of thousands of names in response to us shows, there are potentially hundreds of thousands of names on the voter rolls that should be removed by California and Illinois. Indeed, our litigation resulted in the removal of four million names from voter rolls in various states recently.”
