More Evidence:
Something is Rotten in the State of California
Tom Fitton: Jan 4 Weekly Update: Huge Victory for Election Integrity
The Left Fights back Against Cleaning Up Voter Rolls
Judicial Watch Wins Court Battle Under the National Voter Registrations
Act
Los Angeles County: more voter registrations than citizens that were old
enough to register
Must Remove up to 1.5 million Inactive Registrations
11 of California’s 58 counties had registration rates exceeding 1 hundred
percent of the age eligible citizenry
Will Powers
Jan 7, 2019 4:30 AM PST
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, singled out California as the worst
offender for election integrity, by having “more people on the rolls than
were eligible to vote,” a good indicator that voter fraud is taking place.
Judicial Watch has “an Election
Integrity Project” (EIP) that sued in federal court over the years to
make sure states take reasonable steps to clean up the voter rolls.
By comparing the number of eligible voters with the number of registered
voters in a jurisdiction or state, EIP can tell how many voters are
ineligible.
They had great success in California where EIP just signed “a settlement
agreement with the Secretary of State” in California, requiring Los
Angeles County to take steps to remove up to 1.5 million inactive
registrations from their voting rolls.”
This was accomplished under the National Voter Registrations Act, “famously
known as the Motor-Voter bill, signed into law by President Clinton” in
order to register as many voters as they can. As a adjunct to those
efforts, the bill required “states to take reasonable steps to clean up the
election rolls.” (1)
Mr. Fitton said “the left had zero interest in cleaning up election rolls
and pushed hard” to inflate voter registration numbers “improperly.”
And “leftist” in “the Clinton administration… the Obama administration
refused to enforce the section of the law requiring states to take steps to
clean up the rolls.” (2)
Mr. Fitton claims it is the first time in history, that anyone has tried to
enforce that section of the law, and now Judicial Watch can claim
victory. After sending out warning
letters, they sued in California and won. Using data provided by
the state, census numbers and other data, Judicial Watch was able to find
out that “Los Angeles County had more voter registrations on its’ voter
rolls than it had citizens that were old enough to register.”
Furthermore he said information “published by the elections assistance
commission,” a bipartisan federal agency, revealed Los Angeles County “had a
registration rate of up to 112 percent of its’ adult citizen population, one
hundred and twelve percent.” If that is true, it is a sure sign of voter
fraud and the court apparently agreed.
The whole state of California had a registration rate of “about 101 percent
of the age eligible citizenry. 11 of California’s 58 counties had
registration rates exceeding 1 hundred percent of the age eligible
citizenry,” according to Fitton.
California, largest state in the union with 40 million residents, with a
population of over 10 million in Los Angeles alone. If the County
“were a state it would be one of the top ten states in the country.”
Bob Popper, Director of their Election Integrity Project, former Justice
Department attorney, who lead a team of lawyers to root out dirty election
lists, and “Los Angeles County confirmed that it had on its’ voter rolls a
potential 1.5 million ineligible voters.” That makes “one in five
voters” that were either out of state or dead or otherwise ineligible.
Judicial Watch uncovered “3.5 million ineligible voters nationwide,” so Los
Angeles County comprised “nearly half” that figure alone, although according
to Snopes,
the evidence is "compiled from only 462 counties in 38 states, yet the
entire U.S. comprises over 3,000 counties in fifty states," still a fairly
large sample size, which clearly show a problem.
They also discovered that “California hasn’t removed anyone from the rolls
since 1998, 20 years.” (3) The reason it hasn’t been removed in
20 years, according to Mr. Fitton is “the liberals in the Clinton
administration convinced California they didn’t have to remove names from
the rolls and they stopped doing so.”
The settlement agreement was filed in the local court in Los Angeles on
January 3, and will have the effect of enforcement on the federal
level. And he is right this is a victory for election integrity and
enforcement nationwide.
Los Angeles County will now be forced to send out letters to all 1.5 million
potentially ineligible registrants and see who responds. If they don’t
respond, “their name is removed as required by the MVRA, (the “Motor vehicle
voter registration application”) and affirmed by the Supreme Court last year
and if they are not removed immediately,” additional steps are taken, but he
added, this could take years. (4) However, he later told his
viewers that Los Angeles County will have to remove dead people from the
rolls immediately.
“In addition, California Secretary of State is going to notify others in the
state, the other counties, ineligible names must be removed and they
are obligated to do so.” So this ruling will apply to other counties
in the state.
Astonishingly, over 580,000 inactive registrations have been on the books
for over ten years, so this has been going on a long time, which explains
how the Democrats were able to gain and maintain a majority hold on
California.
As Mr. Fitton points out, it is easy for Democrats to take advantage of
inactive registrations through ballot
harvesting and absentee ballots that only require signature
verification to qualify as valid. If election fraud isn’t occurring,
then the potential for it to happen is certainly a possibility and should be
dealt with as if it was more than a possibility for the sake of free and
fair elections.
Fitton remarks on ballot harvesting, “which allows third parties who don’t
know voters to collect ballots and bring them to polling places, which is an
absolute recipe for fraud, which is why ballot harvesting is mostly illegal
in this United States.”
“And the fact that the left has hated the idea of doing these
list-maintenance procedures, it tells you what their goal is, their goal is
to have their voting rolls padded so that in a way allows for potential
fraud. That’s my conclusion. I don’t see any legitimate basis
for the clean up of voter rolls, for opposing voter ID, for opposing
citizenship verification, other than the fact you want dirty voting rolls
for fraud,” (5) and why would you want that if you didn’t want non-citizens
to vote contrary to law.
“And the left has made it it’s mission, it’s mission to oppose Judicial
Watch in these efforts to uphold the law on voter list maintenance, opposing
everywhere, voter ID laws and they certainly don’t want citizen
verification, which would be a cutting edge reform and a much needed reform,
given the large number of aliens ineligible to vote in the United
States. And the left has devoted an enormous amount of resources to
opposing efforts like this.”
Judicial Watch is a non-partisan organization that goes after the Trump
administration as well as the Justice Department in it's efforts to uncover
the truth and bring greater transparency to government through their Freedom
of Information Requests.
View Tom Fitton’s Weekly Update - January 4, 2019 HERE
Judicial Watch is also going after ballot harvesting: https://www.waynedupree.com/judicial-watch-investigating-ballot-harvesting/