Lawsuits and legal actions have led to the removal of 6 million ineligible names from voter lists nationwide, the advocacy group Judicial Watch said recently.

Judicial Watch announced on April 29 that a settlement in its federal lawsuit against Oregon election officials, confirmed that 800,000 ineligible voter names are slated for review and removal from voter registration lists. Judicial Watch brought the lawsuit in 2024.

Also, Judicial Watch announced in early April that 372,000 ineligible voter names had been removed from Colorado’s voter registration lists, following a lawsuit and legal settlement.

Under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, states must take reasonable steps to remove ineligible voters — such as those who have died, moved, or become inactive — while protecting eligible voters’ rights.

Judicial Watch’s election law efforts are led by Senior Attorney Robert Popper, who previously served in the Voting Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, where he managed voting rights investigations and litigation across dozens of states. 

In Kentucky, state election board officials reported that “roughly 735,000 ineligible voter registrations” had been removed from voter rolls since 2019, as part of a 2018 settlement of a Judicial Watch lawsuit.

In Los Angeles, county officials confirmed the removal of more than 1.2 million names from voter rolls as part of a 2019 settlement. Like other settlements, the agreement was made about two years after the initial lawsuit was filed.

In March, the Supreme Court of the United States held oral arguments in an election integrity case over whether the federal Election Day laws prohibit the counting of mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day.

Judicial Watch brought the lawsuit on behalf of the Libertarian Party of Mississippi. The Supreme Court has yet to issue a ruling on the case.

In January 2026, the Supreme Court decided 7-2 in favor of granting standing in a historic case filed by Judicial Watch, challenging an Illinois law allowing the counting of ballots that are received up to 14 days after Election Day.

Also, an election watchdog group, Omega4America, said that nearly 1,500 people in Washoe County, Nev. provided addresses of empty parking lots when they registered to vote in 2022. The watchdog group said the only way to clear those from voting rolls is to compare property tax records with the addresses on voter registration forms, which is not routinely done.   

Omega4America sells a program to compare those public records. The group said in 2025 that the program now at work on the voter rolls of two dozen states.

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