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(WND)—A lawsuit over ineligible names on a state list of voter registrations is resulting in the removal of up to 800,000 of those individuals.
In just one state.
It’s part of a campaign by Judicial Watch to clean up voter rolls across the nation in light of suspicions of fraud and documented outside influences in recent elections.
Judicial Watch sued Oregon in 2024 charging that state officials, mostly leftists, refused to remove ineligible voters even though Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 required that.
There already had been confirmed widespread voter roll maintenance failures across dozens of counties, the government watchdog reported.
The plan now is for state officials to produced detailed data and enforce federal voter roll clean-up procedures.
Judicial Watch had charged that Oregon’s voter rolls have large numbers of old, inactive registrations; and that 29 of Oregon’s 36 counties removed few or no registrations as required by federal election law.
The claim was that the state, and 35 counties, had more voters registered than the number of voters who existed there.
A federal court rejected a state demand that the case be dismissed, and shortly after, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read confirmed there are about 800,000 inactive registrations.
They purportedly are kept separate from active voters and don’t get ballots, the state said.
“Of those, roughly 160,000 already meet federal and state criteria for removal—having received confirmation notices, failed to respond, and not voted in two federal elections—and are slated for cancellation. The remaining approximately 640,000 inactive records do not yet qualify for removal and will be processed through future list maintenance efforts,” Judicial Watch said.
The number pushes the count of outdated voter registrations removed as a result of legal battles by Judicial Watch to more than six million.
Chief Tom Fitton explained, “Dirty voter rolls can mean dirty elections. Oregon’s Secretary of State, Tobias Read, is to be commended for responding to our lawsuit with a massive voter roll clean-up and commitment to continued voter list maintenance, which will only increase voter confidence.”
Federal law demands that states take reasonable steps to remove ineligible voters, those who have died, moved and otherwise become inactive.
The process that has been approved means the state will open its voter roll maintenance process to close scrutiny.
Colorado recently removed 372,000 ineligible voter names due to a Judicial Watch lawsuit and settlement addressing the state’s compliance with federal voter list maintenance requirements. Kentucky reported about 735,000 names deleted, New York City 918,000, 1.2 million in Los Angeles and more.
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