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August 01, 2025
VICTORY: Lawsuits to Clean Up Voter Rolls Move Forward
In a double win for Judicial Watch and clean elections, federal courts in California and Illinois separately ruled this week that our lawsuits may proceed against those states to force them to clean up their dirty voter rolls.
Our lawsuits allege that both California and Illinois violated the National Voter Registration Act, which requires states to “conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove” from the official voter rolls “the names of ineligible voters” who have died or changed residence.
In California, Judicial Watch and the Libertarian Party of California sued after uncovering a broad failure to clean up voter rolls in dozens of California counties. The amended complaint details that, in correspondence with us, California admitted that 21 counties removed five or fewer registrations in a two-year period pursuant to a key provision of federal law. Sixteen counties removed zero such registrations during that period (Judicial Watch Inc. and the Libertarian Party of CA v. Shirley Weber et al. (No. 2:24-cv-03750).
https://www.judicialwatch.org/lawsuits-clean-up-voter-rolls/
