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2023-07-23 Government Corruption

Watchdog: Nearly 800,000 inactive registrants in Illinois voter rolls

[JustTheNews] Judicial Watch announced Friday a federal judge ordered the Illinois State Board of Elections to turn over voter roll data.

Forthcoming research from nonprofit conservative watchdog Judicial Watch indicates Illinois has close to 800,000 inactive registered voters.

Judicial Watch announced Friday a federal judge ordered the Illinois State Board of Elections to turn over voter roll data to the Illinois Conservative Union and three registered voters. The state had allowed review in person in Springfield during limited hours, but that was 200 miles from where the plaintiffs live.

Friday’s ruling means plaintiffs will get access to digital copies of voter rolls for the past 15 elections to include “registrant’s full name … residential street address … email address … telephone number, county and state voter identification number, age of the registrant, and the registrant’s status (active or inactive) and the most recent date the entry was changed.”

“Clean voter rolls mean cleaner elections,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “This is a victory for all legal voters in Illinois. Voters will now have the transparency that federal law requires in order to ensure elections in Illinois are more honest and cleaner.”

Judicial Watch also announced forthcoming research it plans to release based on recent census data and information Illinois reported to the federal Election Assistance Commission that shows 14% of Illinois’ counties have more registered voters than citizens over 18, indicating the state has close to 800,000 inactive registrants.

“Those are staggering numbers and the very reason why we need the openness and transparency in an effort to clean up these voter rolls, again, just another step to try and restore faith in the system, in the election system, for the voters of Illinois,” state Rep. Brad Halbrook told The Center Square.

As a member of the Illinois House Ethics and Elections Committee, Halbrook argued for changes.

“These 40 day, prior to election day, vote by mail, early voting, ballots can be counted up to 14 days, the potential with rank-choice voting on the horizon, all of this stuff is not good for clean and fair elections and has to be reformed,” Halbrook said.

Judicial Watch has a pending lawsuit challenging Illinois’ weeks-long election process, arguing federal elections should be decided on election day, not weeks after.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-23 03:24|| || Front Page|| [19 views ] Top

#1 Few of the 800k would be at the same address. A Bol lot submitted for a voter than has moved outside their precinct would be invalid. They would have to vote provisionally in their new precinct. A more interesting list would be voters inactive for 15 years that voted in 2020 or 2022.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-23 07:25|| 2023-07-23 07:25|| Front Page Top

#2 A more interesting list would be voters inactive for 15 years that voted in 2020 or 2022.

They probably voted in 2008, 2012 and 2016 too.

The cemeteries in northeast Illinois are full of voters, and have been for years.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-07-23 08:41|| 2023-07-23 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Still have my E-copies of the GA. Voter rolls and still amazed how many voters either lived at the same address, or lived 6 months in Motels, or their addresses fell into a black hole right after the election.

What is more amazing is our Sec. Of State and Governor both could not see a problem with more votes cast than registered voters in Metro-Atlanta. Or the illegally printed Abrams Ballots found in a rental ca, and a dozen other issues.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-23 09:02|| 2023-07-23 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 The dead can be forgiven for having no idea of what they are voting for.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-23 09:42|| 2023-07-23 09:42|| Front Page Top

#5 No sitting governor is incentivized to call into question the system that elected him or her.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-23 11:21|| 2023-07-23 11:21|| Front Page Top

#6 The state of Ohio was sued some years back over failing to clean up their voter rolls, and lost. So they turned my favourite state treasurer loose on the problem. Since the 2018 US Supreme Court ruling supporting their method, over 500,000 duplicate, dead, moved, and imaginary names have been removed from the lists, with another nearly 100,000 to be deleted at the end of this year — and with each round of purges Ohio has gotten redder and redder.

Should Illinois actually clean up those 800,000 names, or a significant portion thereof, it will be interesting to see if the state follows Ohio’s pattern.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-07-23 12:02|| 2023-07-23 12:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Take Chicago out of Illinois, take Philly out of PA, take Atlanta/Fulton County out of Georgia, and you have to wonder how red those states might be. O.k., arguably Illinois is a lost cause, but it does make one wonder.

This all goes back to what former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne said after the 2020 elections, that you only need to swing 6 out of the 660 counties in the United States to swing national election results--Maricopa (Phoenix), Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Detroit, Phiily, and Fulton County (and its mystery water leaks).

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-23 12:49|| 2023-07-23 12:49|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Josh did a good job. One of the things about Ohio that I like is that early votes are scanned at the time of receipt. A fake ballot is not useful unless it can be assigned to a voter record that has not voted. If all votes have to be processed immediately and not stored under a table in a footlocker. Early processing limits the cheating to known fake voter records. All of that cheating would need to take place at the county level. Pushing absentee ballots out to the precincts has its merits.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-23 13:18|| 2023-07-23 13:18|| Front Page Top

#9 This is normal. No really, this is so normal it's expanding.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-07-23 13:49|| 2023-07-23 13:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Regarding the comment that the cemeteries are full of Democrat voters, there's an old joke that goes "My father was a lifelong Republican until he passed away. Since then he's always voted Democrat".

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2023-07-23 14:42|| 2023-07-23 14:42|| Front Page Top

#11 The cemeteries in northeast Illinois are full of voters, and have been for years.

The story is told of Lyndon Johnson one night during his first campaign for Congress in a graveyard with his staff taking names from headstones. One staffer came to a headstone and complained that it was overgrown with moss to the point where he could not read it. Another staffer told him to skip that headstone.

"Now hold on," says Lyndon. "Scrape the moss off that headstone. That man has as much right to vote as anyone else in this graveyard."

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-07-23 16:56|| 2023-07-23 16:56|| Front Page Top

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