That's the difference between the number of people on the county's voter rolls and the actual number of voting age residents.
Los Angeles County has made only minimal efforts to clean up its voter rolls for decades.
About 15% of America's counties where there is reliable voter data - that is, over 400 counties out of 2,800 - have voter registration rates over 100%. This echoes a 2012 Pew study that found that 24 million voter registrations in the United States, about one out of every eight, are "No longer valid or are significantly inaccurate" - a number greater than the current population of Florida or New York state.
While voter registration rates over 100% are not proof of fraud, they certainly create opportunities that otherwise wouldn't exist, such as voting twice in different precincts or the potential for requesting and filling out invalid absentee ballots.
The tension between ballot access and ballot integrity was clear in 1993 when Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act - sometimes colloquially known as the "Motor Voter Act," because its best-known provisions enabled people to register to vote at the DMV. However, streamlining the process to bring in millions of new voters also increased the likelihood of inaccurate voter rolls.
Robert Popper, a former deputy chief of the Voting Section in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, who now works on voting issues for Judicial Watch, said the most aggressive efforts have been led by Democrats.
The high court ruled that the act of not voting was an acceptable trigger for deciding to verify someone's voter registration.
https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/07/11/just-who-is-going-to-clean-up-the-nations-outdated-over-counted-voting-rolls-ahead-of-the-2020-election/
Los Angeles County has made only minimal efforts to clean up its voter rolls for decades.
About 15% of America's counties where there is reliable voter data - that is, over 400 counties out of 2,800 - have voter registration rates over 100%. This echoes a 2012 Pew study that found that 24 million voter registrations in the United States, about one out of every eight, are "No longer valid or are significantly inaccurate" - a number greater than the current population of Florida or New York state.
While voter registration rates over 100% are not proof of fraud, they certainly create opportunities that otherwise wouldn't exist, such as voting twice in different precincts or the potential for requesting and filling out invalid absentee ballots.
The tension between ballot access and ballot integrity was clear in 1993 when Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act - sometimes colloquially known as the "Motor Voter Act," because its best-known provisions enabled people to register to vote at the DMV. However, streamlining the process to bring in millions of new voters also increased the likelihood of inaccurate voter rolls.
Robert Popper, a former deputy chief of the Voting Section in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, who now works on voting issues for Judicial Watch, said the most aggressive efforts have been led by Democrats.
The high court ruled that the act of not voting was an acceptable trigger for deciding to verify someone's voter registration.
https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/07/11/just-who-is-going-to-clean-up-the-nations-outdated-over-counted-voting-rolls-ahead-of-the-2020-election/
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