Judicial Watch Inc. filed a lawsuit against Guilford County, Mecklenburg County and the state of North Carolina over their voter registration rolls on Thursday, April 9.
The lawsuit claims that Guilford County and Mecklenburg County have failed to purge the voter registration rolls of voters who have moved, died or are otherwise no longer eligible to vote in those counties in violation of the National Voter Registration Act.
The lawsuit states that the registered voters in Guilford County total 102 percent of the adults in Guilford County of voting age according to the figures from the US Census Department. It also notes that 19 percent of the registered voters in Guilford County were “inactive,” which means the voter hasn’t voted in several elections and did not respond to a letter sent to the address on their voter registration. Voters on the inactive list are eligible to vote but must verify their address before voting. If a voter on the inactive list doesn’t vote in two federal election cycles after being placed on the inactive list, federal law requires that the voter be removed from the list of registered voters, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit states that in North Carolina the average number of voters on a county’s inactive list is 9.6 percent, making Guilford County’s unusually high and evidence that inactive voters are not being removed from the county’s voter registration rolls as federal election law requires.
Judicial Watch contacted Guilford County, Mecklenburg County and North Carolina in April 2019, requesting the public records regarding the inactive voter lists. According to the lawsuit, neither the counties nor the state provided those records.
Judicial Watch also sent letters to the counties and the state on Dec. 11, 2019, stating that a lawsuit would be filed in 90 days if the discrepancies that Judicial Watch had alleged were not remedied or explained.
Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Elections Karen Brinson Bell responded to that letter by challenging the figures that Judicial Watch used and stating, “Your letters do not provide sufficient detail to determine whether their analysis is correct.”
There is no mention in her letter of complying with the request for public records, which Judicial Watch alleges it never received.
Along with Bell, Guilford County Director of Elections Charlie Collicutt, Chair of the Guilford County Board of Elections Horace Kimel, Mecklenburg County Director of Elections Michael Dickerson and Chairman of the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections Carol Williams are all named in their official capacity in the lawsuit, which was filed in Charlotte in the US District Court for the Western District of NC.
Stop lying…. taking votes that aren’t real or in state………. Truth… Trump 2020 GSO citizen.
What’s wrong with dead people voting? It happens all the time in Chicago.
I’d like to add that despite their many differences, there is one thing about which Democrats and Republicans are in total agreement. Republicans believe that fraudulent voting helps elect Democrats, and Democrats believe that fraudulent voting helps elect Democrats.
Yep, the old saying: “VOTE and vote OFTEN!”
Guess where a lot of those extra votes are coming from? We have at least 6 residential colleges in Guilford County, and I suspect that many of those kids vote in their hometowns and again here. Not to mention the dead people and illegals who turn out to vote…..
On another note, the young folks area the ones breaking the lockdown orders the most frequently, with disregard for all these restrictions on where we can go and who we can gather with, meant by government officials to protect all of us. If they can’t deal with the government dictating their activities ( or lack there of) , how are they gonna like Socialiam ???
It just so happened, but during the last primary election, my daughter was not on the election rolls in Pleasant Garden for the time in over 20 years. She married and moved out of county more than 20 years ago. This is fact not BS. The efforts of Fidicial Watch paid off in reducing the rolls.
Thank you Judicial Watch!!! Democrats balk at purging the rolls of people who moved away or have been dead for a very long time. There is a reason it’s always Democrats who oppose Voter ID. The value of my vote is diminished by voter fraud and I want it stopped.
Inactive voter rolls (and the obit columns) are a source of votes for political organizations (you know who you are).
Citizens need a valid NCDL or NC ID card to get a host of govt benefits. Why is this not required of voters? We know why….
It never said anyone voted,it’s just names on a paper.Gee calm down.
I have just read the replies to number of people on Guilford County rolls.I think it very strange that only one Democrat responded of the 9. This is one reason we as North Carolinans voted for and passed a law to require a government ID.Then we had this district (liberal)judge to not allow the state to in force it.You have to have an ID to do everything else in America All doctors,court house,post office to get into state agency offices ,and airports . The government was to make them FREE,If this is the case I am sure the minority people usually are not against that.Free is free ,whatever.Go Trump in 2020 and Forest for governor.Lets vote all Dems out in November.we also need a Republican veto senate so let’s replace about 10 Dem senators into Republican.