https://www.judicialwatch.org/
rth-carolina-to-clean-its-vote
"Despite successful litigation by Judicial Watch to bring counties and
states into compliance with the NVRA, voter registration lists across the
country remain significantly out of date. Judicial Watch's 2019 study found
378 counties nationwide that had 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. This is a drop of about one million from Judicial
Watch's previous analysis
<https://www.judicialwatch.org
nty-to-remove-1-5-million-inac
atch-federal-lawsuit/> of voter registration data in 2017."--JW
The democrats and RINOs say there in little or no voter fraud in US. LA
County has 1.6 million voters on rolls that are deceased, moved or are no
longer eligible (Must have voted in at least one of two last federal
elections according to federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993 NVRA.
The LA County has more voter registrations than citizens old enough to vote,
i.e., counties where registration rates exceed 100%.
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Judicial Watch Sues to Force North Carolina to Clean Its Voter Rolls
Lawsuit Alleges North Carolina has Nearly One Million Inactive Voters
(Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a lawsuit
against North Carolina and two of its counties for failing to clean their
voter rolls. According to Judicial Watch's analysis of voter registration
data, many of North Carolina's 100 counties have large numbers of ineligible
voters on their rolls. Judicial Watch also alleges that the States' own data
shows that North Carolina has nearly one million inactive voters on its
rolls (Judicial Watch v. North Carolina and North Carolina State Board of
Elections, et al.
<https://www.judicialwatch.org
211/> (No. 3:20-cv- 211)).
Judicial Watch's lawsuit argues that North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, and
Guilford County failed to make reasonable efforts to remove ineligible
voters from their registration rolls as required by the federal National
Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). The lawsuit also claims that these
jurisdictions violated the NVRA by failing to make available to Judicial
Watch public records concerning efforts to comply with the law.
The NVRA provides for the removal of the names of registrants who have
failed to respond to an address confirmation notice and then failed to vote
in the next two general federal elections. Federal law makes these removals
mandatory.
In June 2019, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) released data
<https://www.eac.gov/research-
showing that voter registration rates in a significant proportion of North
Carolina's 100 counties are close to, at or above 100% of their age-eligible
citizenry - statistics considered by the courts to be a strong indication
that a jurisdiction is not taking the steps required by law to remove
ineligible registrants. Judicial Watch's analysis also showed that at the
time of the EAC report the entire State of North Carolina had a registration
rate close to 100% of its age-eligible citizenry.
In its complaint Judicial Watch also points out that the State's abnormally
high number of inactive registrations shows that it is not removing these
registrations after two general federal elections, as the NVRA requires.
According to data the State certified to the EAC in 2019:
* About 17% of North Carolina's registrations were inactive, which was
the fifth worst (highest) of the 40 states for which data were available
* By way of comparison, the median state inactive rate was 9.6%
* In 19 North Carolina counties, 20% or more of the registrations were
inactive, and in three counties 25% or more were inactive
North Carolina's inactive registrations remain high to this day. The
complaint notes:
* As of March 2020, North Carolina's own data shows it has nearly one
million inactive registrations
* A large proportion of these registrations have shown no voting
activity for more than five years - that is, since prior to November 2014
"Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections, and Judicial Watch must insist
that North Carolina follows federal law to clean up its voting rolls," said
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "We want cleaner elections, as the law
requires, and we expect this lawsuit will cause North Carolina to take the
simple steps necessary to clean from its rolls the names of voters who have
moved away or died."
Judicial Watch is the national leader in enforcing the NVRA. In December
2019, Judicial Watch provided notice
<https://www.judicialwatch.org
of-extra-registrants-on-voting
olina-colorado-virginia-to-cle
large counties in five states that it intended to sue unless they take steps
to comply with the NVRA by removing ineligible registrations from their
rolls. In addition to North Carolina, Judicial Watch sent letters to
counties in California
<https://www.judicialwatch.org
Pennsylvania
<https://www.judicialwatch.org
Virginia
<https://www.judicialwatch.org
Colorado
<https://www.judicialwatch.org
In 2018, the Supreme Court upheld
<https://www.judicialwatch.org
me-court-decision-upholding-oh
voter-roll cleanup program that resulted from a Judicial Watch settlement of
a federal lawsuit with Ohio. California settled
<https://www.judicialwatch.org
r-roll-clean-up-notifies-up-to
al-watch-lawsuit-settlement/> an NVRA lawsuit with Judicial Watch and last
year began the process of removing up to 1.6 million inactive names from Los
Angeles County's voter rolls. Kentucky
<https://www.judicialwatch.org
rdered-consent-decree-requires
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.
Despite successful litigation by Judicial Watch to bring counties and states
into compliance with the NVRA, voter registration lists across the country
remain significantly out of date. Judicial Watch's 2019 study found 378
counties nationwide that had 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. This is a drop of about one million from Judicial
Watch's previous analysis
<https://www.judicialwatch.org
nty-to-remove-1-5-million-inac
atch-federal-lawsuit/> of voter registration data in 2017.
Judicial Watch Attorney Robert Popper is the director of Judicial Watch's
Election Integrity initiative. Judicial Watch is being assisted by Mark A.
Jones of Bell, Davis & Pitt in Charlotte, North Carolina; and by H.
Christopher Coates of the Law Office of H. Christopher Coates.
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