Judicial Watch by Tom Fitton
Illinois Settles Lawsuit, Agrees to Make Voter Registration List Information Public
We continue our success in ensuring cleaner elections.
Judicial Watch settled a federal election integrity lawsuit on behalf of the Illinois Conservative Union against the state of Illinois, the Illinois State Board of Elections, and its director. The settlement grants access to the current centralized statewide list of registered voters in the state for the past 15 elections.
This is a victory for all legal voters in Illinois. Voters will now have the transparency that federal law requires in order to ensure elections in Illinois are more honest and cleaner. Clean voter rolls mean cleaner elections.
State officials had refused to allow the nonprofit and three lawfully registered Illinois voters to obtain a copy of the state’s voter registration list, despite their lawful request for those records under federal law.
The State Board allowed access to the records but made any meaningful review impossible, requiring the plaintiffs to travel to Springfield, Illinois during limited working hours and review Illinois’ millions of voter records one at a time on a computer terminal, with no ability to sort or organize records…
