A major milestone in our work to clean up voter rolls!
Over the last several years, our analysis and use of voter registration lists have led to lawsuits and legal actions under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) that have resulted in the removal of five million names from voter rolls in nearly a dozen states and localities.
Recently, the Commonwealth of Kentucky reported that 735,000 ineligible voter registrations have been removed from its voter rolls since 2019 by the State Board of Elections as part of its 2018 consent decree settling a lawsuit with us.
As part of its 2022 settlement, New York City alone has removed 918,139 ineligible names from its rolls: recent data show 477,056 removals between March 2023 and February 2025, which is in addition to the 441,083 previously reported removals.
These latest developments come as a result of our 2017 lawsuit against Kentucky under the NVRA (Judicial Watch, Inc. and the United States of America v. Alison Lundergan Grimes, et al. (No. 3:17-cv-00094)) and our 2022 lawsuit against New York City that pointed out that it had removed only 22 names under the federal law over six years (Judicial Watch v Valentine et al. (No.1:22-cv-03952)).
In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed that such removals are mandatory.
In May 2022, Los Angeles County confirmed the removal of 1.2 million ineligible names from its rolls as part of a settlement in a federal lawsuit we filed in 2017. (Legal pressure from Judicial Watch ultimately has led to the removal of ineligible names from voter rolls in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Colorado, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Ohio.)
Other voter roll clean-up lawsuits by Judicial Watch continue in Illinois, Oregon, and California.
Our clean-up of over five million dirty names from voter rolls is a historic achievement for clean elections. I have no doubt that our election integrity heavy lifting helped stop the steal in 2024. But there are millions of more names to be removed from voting rolls, which is why we are in federal court in three states.
We are a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights.
Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declined to rehear its previous ruling in which it agreed with us that it was unlawful for Mississippi to count ballots that arrived after Election Day.
In March 2025 we filed a federal lawsuit against California on behalf of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa to prevent state election officials from extending Election Day for seven days beyond the date established by federal law. California counts ballots received up to seven days after Election Day.
Also in March, we sent a notice letter to Lt. Governor Deidre M. Henderson, notifying her that Utah is currently in violation of the NVRA’s public disclosure requirements. The notice letter warns of a lawsuit after 90 days if the issues are not resolved.
