Federal Court Orders Maryland to Produce Voter Registration List Data to Judicial Watch

[Swordsmyth]

Judicial Watch announced today that a federal court has ordered (https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/judicial-watch-v-lamone-memorandum-opinion-02006/) the State of Maryland to produce voter list data for Montgomery County, the state’s biggest county. The court ruling comes in the Judicial Watch lawsuit filed July 18, 2017, against Montgomery County and the Maryland State Boards of Elections under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA (https://www.justice.gov/crt/national-voter-registration-act-1993-nvra)). The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Baltimore Division (Judicial Watch vs. Linda H. Lamone, et al. (https://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-lamone-et-al-complaint-02006/) (No. 1:17-cv-02006)). The decision follows NVRA-related Judicial Watch successes in California (https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/california-begins-massive-voter-roll-clean-up-notifies-up-to-1-5-million-inactive-voters-as-part-of-judicial-watch-lawsuit-settlement/) and Kentucky (https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/kentucky-set-to-remove-up-to-250000-inactive-voters-as-part-of-court-consent-judgment-with-judicial-watch/) that could lead to removal of up to 1.85 million inactive voters from voter registration lists. The NVRA requires states to take reasonable steps to clean up its voting rolls and to make documents about its voter list maintenance practices available to anyone who asks.
Judicial Watch had sought the Maryland voter list data after discovering that there were more registered voters in Montgomery County than citizens over the age of 18 who could register.

More at: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-victory-federal-court-orders-maryland-to-produce-voter-registration-list-data-to-judicial-watch/

[Zippyjuan]

If you have a lot of people die or move away from a area, you can get more registered voters than eligible voters. But you need to be careful in removing names that you don't drop off valid people.

If there were 100 registered voters and one died without notifying the registrar, there would be 99 eligible voters but 100 registered. If five moved away to another area and didn't tell them, you would now have 100 registered voters and 94 eligible voters. Doesn't mean the dead people are going to vote or those who moved away will come back to participate in the election in addition to voting where they now live.