The watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing California election officials to force them to remove ineligible and inactive registrants from the state’s voter rolls.
The lawsuit, filed this month, asks a court to force California Secretary of State Shirley Weber (D) to comply with voter roll maintenance requirements contained in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). There is.
Officials in 21 California counties removed five or fewer registrants from their voter rolls in the latest statewide sweep from November 2020 to November 2022, according to the complaint. Of these 21 counties, 16 did not remove any registrants.
Despite having nearly 6 million total registrants, 21 counties removed only 11 registrants from their voter rolls.
For comparison, San Diego County, California, removed more than 130,000 people from its voter rolls from November 2020 to November 2022, out of 2.3 million people.
Additionally, Judicial Watch alleges that 16 other California counties failed to disclose how many registrants were removed over a two-year period. Together, these 16 counties account for nearly 30% of the state’s population.
“Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. And California’s voting rolls continue to be in disarray,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “Judicial Watch’s lawsuit has already led the state to remove more than 1 million old names from California’s rolls, but our new lawsuit shows there is more work to be done.”
In fact, last February, Judicial Watch announced that a settlement agreement with Los Angeles County forced election officials to remove more than 1.2 million registrants from the county’s voter rolls.
Judicial Watch hopes the lawsuit will lead to similar sweeps in counties where few registered voters have been removed from voter rolls.
The case is Judicial Watch vs. Weberno. 2:24-CV-3750 In the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
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