Flag-waving patriots gathered at the U.S. Courthouse in Eugene on Wednesday morning to draw attention to the Judicial Watch lawsuit against the State of Oregon, Civil Action No. 6:24-cv-1783. Inside the courthouse, U.S. District Judge Michael McShane, heard the State's motion to dismiss and will make his decision in the the next two weeks.

Citizens of many counties joined in support of this highly visible election case, Constitutionally, administration of voter rolls must be based on "clean voter rolls". Judicial Watch alleges that Oregon has one of the worst voting lists in the country because the Secretary of State and the State of Oregon have failed to "conduct a general program that requires a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters who have died or changed residence from voter rolls."

Judicial Watch lawsuits and legal actions under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) have resulted in the removal of five million names from voter rolls in nearly a dozen states over the last several years.

In its complaint, Judicial Watch argues that Oregon’s voter rolls contain large numbers of old or inactive registrations, and that 29 of Oregon’s 36 counties removed few or no registrations in compliance with federal election laws. Judicial Watch also asserts that "Oregon and 35 of its counties had overall registration rates exceeding 100%" (of the voting age population); "and that Oregon has the highest known inactive registration rate of any state in the nation." More information is available in their press release here.

Federal law states that names be removed from the rolls, but Oregon law states names are cancelled. On June 6, 2025, the US DOJ submitted a supporting document saying, "the United States has a substantial interest in ensuring proper interpretation of the NVRA. The United States submits this Statement of Interest for the limited purpose of addressing the requirements under the NVRA for states to maintain and make available for public inspection certain records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters".

As a result of independent research, 733,488 registrations were found listed as inactive on Jan 8, 2025. Most often, this condition is a result of a challenge by county elections personnel because of unsigned ballot envelopes or signatures that don't match what's on file. These ballots cannot be counted until all discrepancies are resolved. Registrations can be made active again by correcting the problem with their county clerk. Unfortunately, these inactive voters will not be mailed a ballot for the next election.

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Citizens are fed up with voter rolls that look mostly inaccurate. They are taking issue with registrations of non-citizens, registrations at addresses where the voter died (current record is 8 years ago), registrations of persons that moved out of the county or state, and registrations with addresses where no one by that name has ever lived in the neighborhood. The voter rolls also appear to contain duplicates with the same exact name or slightly different names. With only digital records of voters, the possibilities for fraud and illegal registration attempts are unlimited.

In other states, it has been noted that after a Judicial Watch voter roll lawsuit and names have been removed from the lists, new registrations quickly reappeared to match or exceed the original level of registrants. Expert, Dr. Douglas Frank, has been watching voter rolls for years, and is watching this case closely for similar results.


--Virginia Hall

Post Date: 2025-06-20 12:16:31

Last Update: 2025-06-20 18:40:42