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Yes, California’s voter rolls need scrutiny

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“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” says the old Postal Service creed.

What might stay them? 

A federal push to clean up California’s voter rolls.

Postmaster General David Steiner told a Senate committee this week that the US Postal Service won’t deliver ballots in states that refuse to share voter roll data with the federal government, per a March executive order from President Trump.

The feds are right to press the issue of clean voter rolls, even if the threat to halt ballot delivery is likely empty and legally dubious.

Ensuring that mail-in ballots go only to eligible voters would be a step toward restoring trust in California’s absurdly lax voting system.

In a state that automatically mails ballots to every registered voter — with no controls on who returns those ballots and no allowance for voter ID — voter-roll accuracy is not just “nice to have.” 

Besides: If California’s voter lists are as pristine as claimed, why fight an audit? 

But no. California Democrats moan instead about voter suppression (nonsense), protection of personal information (silly, as most info’s public anyway) and trusting the state’s voting........

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