California’s state and local election authorities have not done enough to clean and maintain the state’s list of eligible voters for years, allowing more than 870,000 voter registrations to remain on the voter rolls and potentially to receive ballots, even though the voters may have moved out of state or died, a new lawsuit alleges.
In late May, conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against California Secretary of State Shirley Weber.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of named plaintiffs Don Wagner, who is a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors and the Republican candidate for Secretary of State, challenging Weber, who is a Democrat; and the American Independent Party of California, an alternative political party in the state.
The lawsuit is similar to others Judicial Watch has filed in other states, accusing the Democratic officials responsible for overseeing elections in those states of failing to abide by federal law and rules governing the removal of inactive voters from voter rolls.
In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs assert that Weber has fallen short of her duties under the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) to ensure California counties are following the steps dictated by the law to ensure that voters who have either died or have relocated outside of California are properly purged from lists of voters eligible to receive ballots, including mail-in ballots.
California does not require voters present identification when voting either in person or when receiving a ballot by mail.
California counties send mail-in ballots to all registered voters.
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