{"id":60398,"date":"2025-08-04T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60398"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:19:29","slug":"this-should-be-done-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60398","title":{"rendered":"This Should Be Done Every Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/doj-launching-effort-clean-voter-rolls-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just the News<\/a> posted an article about the Department of Justice&#8217;s effort to clean up America&#8217;s voter rolls in time for the mid-term election.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Trump Justice Department has launched a nationwide effort to clean up voter rolls ahead of the 2026 elections, pushing states to purge duplicate and outdated registrations and catch any non-citizens or illegal aliens who slipped into a position to vote, officials told <em>Just the News<\/em> on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Notifications have gone out to several states and localities that DOJ&#8217;s Civil Rights Division has been concerned that states aren&#8217;t complying with federal laws, including California, Wisconsin, Utah and New Hampshire.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;Unlike the previous administration, at President Trump\u2019s DOJ, we will fight to have fair and secure elections &#8211; and that begins with making our voter rolls accurate,&#8221; Attorney General Pam Bondi told <em>Just the News<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There have been situations in North Carolina (and I am sure elsewhere) where three hundred people have been registered to vote using the address of a shack in the middle of a parking lot. In this age of computers, where the government knows exactly where you are because you carry a cell phone, there is no excuse for that.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cI can\u2019t comment on the specifics of any ongoing investigations, but I am committed to making it harder to cheat and easier to vote,&#8221; Dhillon (Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon) told <em>Just the News<\/em> on Saturday. &#8220;Clean voter rolls will help achieve that goal.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/doj-moves-pull-federal-election-funding-wisconsin-failing-comply\"><em>Just the News<\/em> reported in June <\/a>that Dhillon was moving to punish Wisconsin for allegedly failing to comply with federal voting integrity laws, taking the first step to withhold future federal funds for administering elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>She notified the Wisconsin Election Commission that it was not in compliance with the Helping Americans Vote Act (HAVA), specifically for failing to set up a system to field and resolve voter complaints about election integrity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;Quite surprisingly, we have learned that the Wisconsin Elections Commission has refused to provide any administrative complaint process or hearing regarding HAVA complaints against the Commission,&#8221; Dhillon wrote. &#8220;Rather, Wisconsin has decided to rely on a 2022 state court case opining that the Commission cannot police itself..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every illegal vote cancels out the vote of a legal voter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Just the News posted an article about the Department of Justice&#8217;s effort to clean up America&#8217;s voter rolls in time for the mid-term election. 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