The New York Times is fretting that informed citizens are actively participating in election oversight.
Under the headline “Trump’s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls,” Times writers Alexandra Berzon and Nick Corasaniti complain about voters who are concerned that outdated voter registration rolls could lead to fraud at worst and sloppy election administration at best. These concerned citizens, they say, have “pressed local officials in Michigan, Nevada and Georgia to drop voters from the rolls en masse,” and have “at times targeted Democratic areas, relying on new data programs and novel legal theories to justify their push.”
On the other hand, perhaps Democrat-led cities deserve higher scrutiny from informed citizens when it comes to elections because those areas often won’t do it themselves.
Voter list maintenance is crucial to ensuring that only eligible individuals vote. Los Angeles County is just one example of a Democrat-led area that was not complying with voter roll maintenance standards until it was sued.
Judicial Watch filed a suit in 2017 alleging the county was not removing inactive registrations from its records. As part of the settlement, the county was required to contact “as many as 1.5 million people” whose voter records are inactive, to determine whether they are still eligible. But even the L.A. County Democrats admitted the concession would not harm any eligible voters.
“Nothing in the agreement will jeopardize even one eligible Los Angeles County voter,” L.A. County Clerk Dean Logan said, according to The Associated Press. California Secretary of
