UPDATE: Big Results In Clean Voter Rolls Lawsuit For Major US County

One of the areas of interest concerning Judicial Watch is clean voter rolls.

The rationale for that is pretty straightforward.

The more accurate the known number of the upper limit of eligible voters in a given voting area is, the harder it becomes for some sketchy opportunist to LBJ their way to an election victory. (See: ‘Box 13 scandal’.)

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If someone were to employ dirty tricks like double-scanning a tranche of ballots or somehow adding invalid ballots to the total count, a ballot surplus would give the game away.

It’s in line with the right-of-center philosophy of ‘easy to vote, but hard to cheat’.

It’s a simple process: qualified citizens can be added to the list where they live, and when they move away, they can be added to a different list at their new location.

For reasons that can only be speculated, some regions — typically blue-leaning — object strenuously to enforcing their own laws concerning keeping ‘clean’ voter rolls.

Judicial Watch has gone to court in different parts of the country seeking court injunctions for states and counties to abide by their own laws of maintaining voter rolls correctly.

We have an update on the impact of the victory they won in California court.

Per their press release:

Judicial Watch announced today that 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 Judicial Watch filed in 2017 (Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. v. Dean C. Logan, et al. (No. 2:17-cv-08948)). Judicial Watch sued on its own behalf and 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 Judicial Watch, Los Angeles County confirmed that a total of 1,207,613 ineligible and inactive voters were recently removed from the rolls. Los Angeles County confirmed last year that over 634,000 of its inactive voters hadn’t voted in at least 10 years.

Judicial Watch 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 of 1.2 million registrations in Los Angeles County is a historic victory and means California elections are less at risk for fraud,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Building on this success, Judicial Watch will continue its lawsuits and activism to clean up voter rolls and to promote and protect cleaner elections.”