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EXCLUSIVE: RNC Election Integrity Unit Probes States To Keep Voter Rolls Clean

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The Republican National Committee is requesting all states provide the party information on how it maintains and cleans up its voter rolls, as a part of its latest election integrity initiative, the Daily Caller learned first.

The RNC’s election integrity unit is launching one of its largest ever records requests on Tuesday, sending requests for records to 48 state election officers and the city of Washington, D.C., an official shared with the Caller. The party is requesting that the states share all documents pertaining to how they maintain their voter registration lists, a hot issue that popped up towards the end of the 2024 presidential cycle.

By requesting the information, the RNC is trying to confirm that only eligible voters are registered to vote in their respective states across the country, an official told the Caller. The party is also requesting documents related to how each state removes voters who are no longer eligible, like non-citizens, criminals or those who have died.

“The RNC is once again taking action to make our elections more secure. Voters have a right to know that their states are properly maintaining voter rolls and quickly acting to clean voter registration lists by removing ineligible voters. If states unlawfully block our requests, or if we discover that states have failed to accurately maintain their voter rolls, the RNC stands ready to act,” chairman Michael Whatley told the Caller.

Under the National Voter Registration Act and state specific public records laws, states are required to  maintain and provide records to the public on how they are maintaining accurate lists of registered voters. The party did not request documents from North Dakota, which does not have a formal voter registration process, and Maryland.

During the 2024 election, some states made an effort to clean up their voter rolls but the Biden-Harris Department of Justice sued them to stop. After Secretary of State Wes Allen identified 3,251 registered voters on Alabama’s voter rolls that had been issued noncitizen identification numbers by the Department of Homeland Security, the DOJ alleged that it was too close to election day for the state to make sure a move. A similar situation occurred in Virginia.

Throughout the 2024 election cycle, the RNC filed more than 100 election integrity lawsuits across 20 states, according to the party’s website. Though it is an off-election year, the RNC is moving forward with its legal efforts, including building its staff and investigating matters that take more time, an official previously told the Caller.

“Just because the election happened and President Trump won doesn’t mean we stopped or we’ve accomplished some sort of goal or that we’ve reached the finish line — because we haven’t,” the official told the Caller.

Having really built up its election integrity department over the last presidential cycle, the party is positioned to make progress leading up to the 2026 midterms. Voter list maintenance is a priority for the party in the off years, the official previously explained.

“As we continue, we’re going to leverage all of those advantages to do more of what we did, which was build an amazing field program around this — which is the volunteer side, which is poll workers and poll watchers … and the volunteer attorneys,” the RNC official told the Caller. “We’re also going to continue our legal efforts. We are looking at new cases too.”

UPDATE (11:59 AM EST):

A previous version of this article stated that Maryland does not have a formal voter registration process. Maryland does have formal voter registration. The article has been updated accordingly.

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It’s Naive to Think Not One of the Millions of Aliens in the U.S. is Voting

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It’s now officially an issue: illegal aliens are voting. President Donald Trump has announced a major investigation into the charges and counter charges surrounding this phenomenon. At Judicial Watch, however, it’s nothing new. We’ve had our eye on this for years, and our Election Integrity Project  was active in monitoring polling places in the most recent election.

I was interviewed some time ago (when the issue was first raised around the November election) by Breitbart Daily News about illegal voting, and I want to share that with you. Here is a report at Breitbart on the interview:

On…Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Alex Marlow asked Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton about a study from the Center for Immigration Studies that revealed that “there could be as many as 43 million non-citizens in the United States right now.” Fitton had previously spotlighted this study on Twitter as evidence of potential voter fraud issues.

“There’s 43 million people who are not citizens and are ineligible to vote, but a good percentage of them do register to vote. And of those that do, some vote,” Fitton explained.

“Most tend to vote Democrat. It’s a fact,” he continued. “There’s been a study out of Old Dominion University that shows it is enough of a vote to sway elections, one way or another. It may have resulted in election, specifically, of Al Franken to the United States Senate, and all the bad things politically or public policy-wise that happened as a result, like Obamacare and things like that.”

“Are we supposed to be so naive as to think that tens of millions of people are here, present in the United States, and none of them are illegally voting?” Fitton asked. “In states where you don’t have voter ID, in states where most voter registration, you’re not required to certify citizenship, other than signing and saying you’re a citizen?”

“It happens repeatedly where you have these voter registrations signed by aliens because they shouldn’t be voting, so they’re registered to vote – and the irony is, once they’re registered to vote, voter ID ain’t gonna protect you,” he noted, “because they have the ID necessary to vote, once they’re registered. So you have many non-citizens voting in elections, and they vote in large numbers in a way to sway elections.”

“The number of non-citizens in the United States are at record proportions – about as big as it’s been in 105 years, according, I think, to CIS, the Center for Immigration Studies,” he observed. “It is looking at U.S. Census data, and there’s just been this massive uptick, just even the last few years.”

“And it’s not just illegal aliens. We’re talking about aliens who are here legally, who are also voting illegally,  potentially,” he added. “That’s why we’re gonna be in Virginia, trying to monitor elections, because we know this is an issue. This is one of the issues that can lead to voter fraud and a stolen election.”

The Washington Times published a big story today following up on this issue and featuring JW:

But conservative activists say the liberal media are ignoring evidence – that noncitizen voting is illegal and, thus, fraud. They say the Justice Department in the Obama administration was more concerned with preventing states from cleansing rosters of dead and inactive voters than in mounting any investigation into fraud.

“Most voters are never asked for voter ID, so it is dishonest to suggest that with the tens of millions of illegal and legal aliens here, there is no voter fraud,” said Tom Fitton, who heads the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. “If the key Old Dominion study results on the 2008 election are applied to 2016 – 1.41 million aliens may have voted illegally, with 1.13 million voting for Democrats.”

“A federal voter fraud investigation is long overdue,” Mr. Fitton said. “It would be a simple matter of analyzing voter registration databases against federal databases of aliens and deceased individuals. Why is the left afraid to even ask the questions? The jig is up.”

President Trump is right.  A full-scale, non-partisan federal voter fraud investigation is long overdue.  I’m not aware of any systematic federal investigation of voter fraud – ever.  Initially, such an investigation would be a simple matter of analyzing voter registration databases against federal databases of aliens and deceased individuals.

Judicial Watch’s Election Integrity team, headed up by Robert Popper, former deputy chief of the Voting Section in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, would be more than happy to help.

In the meantime, you can sample our comprehensive efforts on election integrity here.