5 false statistics Trumps voter fraud panel will use to restrict voting [View all]

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Kira Lerner at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/false-data-voting-panel-26aa7e5d2ac1/

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The claim that the number of registered voters in a jurisdiction can’t exceed the voting age population

Robert Popper, director of the Election Integrity Project at the conservative Judicial Watch, will testify that states are not maintaining their voter lists sufficiently because there is evidence that in some jurisdictions, the total number of registered voters exceeds the number of voting age citizens.

There are a number of legitimate reasons why these numbers may differ. For one, the number of voting-age citizens residing in a jurisdiction at any time is an estimate. Small counties are more likely to have inaccurate estimates, and many U.S. counties are small.

Jurisdictions are also likely to have “deadwood” — people on their rolls who may have moved out of the area or died, but because they have not updated their registration or because of bureaucratic lag, may still appear on the rolls. Voter rolls may also be inflated because they include military and overseas citizens or 16 and 17-year-olds who have legally pre-registered to vote before they can cast a ballot.

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The claim is also misleading because being registered to vote in multiple jurisdictions is not illegal, despite what Kobach and Trump himself may claim. In fact, as reporters noted last year, a number of people in Trump’s inner circle, including Steve Bannon, Tiffany Trump, Sean Spicer, and Jared Kushner, were registered in multiple states themselves in 2016.

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