Lawsuit Forces Los Angeles County To Remove 1.2 Million Ineligible Voters From Rolls

Los Angeles County, California, confirmed that it has removed 1.2 Million ineligible voters thanks to a settlement with Judicial Watch. The announcement was made Friday. Judicial Watch filed this Lawsuit in 2017 on behalf of itself and four registered voters in Los Angeles County. Another public interest group, Election Integrity Project California, Inc., was also part of the lawsuit.

Los Angeles was required to send 1.6 Million address confirmation notices in accordance with the agreement to all voters. “inactive” on its voter lists. According to the National Voter Registration Act — which requires states to maintain accurate voter rolls — states and counties must remove from their voting rolls voters who do not respond to such mailers and do not vote in the next two federal elections.

Its most recent progress Report Los Angeles informed Judicial Watch that it had removed approximately 1.2 million non-eligible voters from its rolls in compliance with the settlement. The county disclosed last year that 634,000 inactive voters had not voted in the previous 10 years.

Judicial Watch filed its first lawsuit in 2017. It was filed in 2017. argued Los Angeles County had more registered voters that residents who were eligible to register. “highest number of inactive registrations of any single county in the country.” The U.S. Election Assistance Commission data at the time showed that the voter registration rate for the county was 112 per cent of its adult population.

“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,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch in a statement. “Building on this success, Judicial Watch will continue its lawsuits and activism to clean up voter rolls and to promote and protect cleaner elections.”

Judicial Watch has not been involved in this lawsuit. After reaching an agreement with Judicial Watch, New York City removed 441,083 uneligible voters from its voter roll. Settlement The conservative advocacy group. North Carolina, too Removed more than 430,000 ineligible registers It was taken off its rolls by a similar lawsuit. Kentucky In response to a lawsuit, the parties agreed to do the exact same.

Another good government group is the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which has brought lawsuits against states to make them comply. Michigan And a href=”https://publicinterestlegal.org/press/lawsuit-to-remove-dead-voters-in-pennsylvania-ends-with-win-for-election-integrity/”>Pennsylvania To guard against possible election fraud, they must clean up their voter rolls.

Victoria Marshall is a staff journalist at The Federalist. Her writings have been published in the New York Post and National Review. Hillsdale College, where she studied journalism and politics, graduated her in May 2021. Follow her Twitter @vemrshll.