TRUE THE VOTE THREATENS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST 136 COUNTIES ACROSS US WITH BLOATED VOTER ROLLS
136 Counties in 21 States Have More Registered Voters than Adult Residents
HOUSTON, TX. — August 27, 2015: True the Vote (TTV), the nation’s leading voters’ rights and election integrity organization, today announced its latest findings in an ongoing effort to reduce outdated records in America’s voter rolls.
136 counties in 21 states were given notices of potential violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, requiring election officials to make reasonable efforts to maintain voter rolls. Counties in receipt are demonstrated to have more than 100 percent voter registration at the time of the 2014 Election and have not indicated any significant effort to address the problem in the months following.
“It’s important that engaged voters keep the pressure on election officials to ensure that outdated or ineligible records are quickly addressed,” True the Vote Founder Catherine Engelbrecht said. “Bloated voter rolls hurt everyone. Deceased voters aren’t removed, duplicate registrations aren’t revoked and the records of voters who’ve relocated aren’t corrected. Low verification standards, like absence of voter ID, add to the confusion. Bloated rolls create the ideal environment for identity theft and voter fraud.
“With the U.S. Justice Department still refusing to set a national standard and enforce federal maintenance requirements, we’re now starting to see entire states come close to showing over 100 percent registration,” Engelbrecht added.
Key Highlights
- Who’s the Worst: Kentucky, Michigan and Indiana lead the nation in counties with 100% plus voter registration rates with more than 10 each (total voter registration rate per state)
- Kentucky – 94%
- Michigan – 95%
- Indiana – 92%
- Becoming an Urban Problem: Larger, suburban counties in Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan without a history of 100% plus rates are now over the line
- 2016: The states represented in this most recent finding account for 305 Electoral College votes –a landslide total
Counties in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia received pre-litigation notices. True the Vote has requested that the counties outline efforts to remove dead, felon, moved or otherwise ineligible voters ahead of the 2016 election season to avoid litigation.
This latest research finding builds upon a body of work that has led to lawsuits against the States of Indiana and Ohio to update voter rolls in 2012.
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Alabama
Lowndes
Macon
Perry
Greene
Wilcox
Marengo
Washington
Hale
Choctaw
Conecuh
Arizona
Apache
California
Modoc
Siskiyou
San Diego
Stanislaus
Alameda
San Bernardino
Kings
Colorado
Mineral
San Juan
Ouray
Jackson
Summit
Dolores
Gilpin
Douglas
Florida
St. Johns*
Santa Rosa*
Illinois
Jersey
Scott
Pulaski
Indiana
Crawford
Franklin
Scott
Brown
Union
Tipton
Orange
Newton
Clark
Dearborn
Warrick
Boone
Vanderburgh
Martin
Kansas
Gove
Cherokee*
Bourbon
Meade
Smith
Kentucky
Breathitt
Menifee
Trimble
Fulton
Anderson
Mercer
Boone
Monroe
Magoffin
Powell
Oldham
Carlisle
Cumberland
Wolfe
Bath
Hancock
Floyd
Trigg
Greenup
Spencer
McCracken
Caldwell
Woodford
Louisiana
Tensas
Michigan
Leelanau
Otsego
Antrim
Keweenaw
Kalkaska
Roscommon
Emmet
Charlevoix
Dickinson
Ontonagon
Benzie
Berrien
Mackinac
Genesee
Gogebic
Gladwin
Alcona
Montmorency
Mississippi
Tunica
Issaquena
Bolivar
Noxubee
Madison
Choctaw
Lauderdale
Leake
Lincoln
Amite
Franklin
Grenada
Montana
Petroleum
Nebraska
Loup
Wheeler
Kimball
Thurston
Keya Paha
New Mexico
Harding
Mora
Los Alamos
Catron
New York
Hamilton
Ohio
Lawrence
South Dakota
Hanson
Campbell
Union
Lake
Tennessee
Pickett
Van Buren
Texas
Loving
Brooks
McMullen
Kenedy
Roberts
Irion
Jim Hogg
Zavala**
Culberson
PolkEdwards
West Virginia
Lincoln
Mingo
McDowell
*Denotes a county receiving a pre-notice voter registration records inspection request
**Denotes pending litigation on the matter
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