Scott Jennings argues that keeping voter rolls accurate is basic common sense and vital to election integrity, pointing to officials who resist cleanup efforts and the consequences when registrations go unchecked.
Democratic leaders in several states have pushed back when asked to share voter lists or update registrations, often citing privacy concerns. In Wisconsin, that stance has come from the state attorney general and governor, who have declined to provide full voter information to outside requests. That refusal raises practical questions about how elections are maintained and who benefits when lists aren’t pruned.
Critics on the right see those privacy defenses as a cover for something else: preserving flawed rolls that can be exploited. Removing dead people, non-citizens, and out-of-state residents from voter lists is a routine administrative task in many places, so sustained resistance looks suspicious. When maintenance is ignored, confidence in elections erodes and partisan advantage can follow.
Scott Jennings put this into simple perspective on CNN, saying it’s just ‘common sense’ to clean up voter rolls. “Do you have an objection to voting rolls being as clean as they could be before an election?” Jennings asked fellow panelist Ana Navarro. “No, and I trust states, as did the framers of the Constitution, to manage those elections,” Navarro replied.
“My problem with the voting roll complaint is that in state, after state, after state, after state, we see local leadership unwilling to do anything to keep their voting rolls clean. We saw it, for instance, in the state of Oregon, where hundreds of thousands of fraudulent or non-existent voter registrations, through some litigation, had to be taken off the list. This is true in a lot of states. I don’t understand the objection to having a clean voting roll if, for no other reason than to give the inhabitants of the state some confidence that people are keeping up with it.”
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Bingo. This is exactly what they want. Every fraudulent vote disenfranchises a legitimate voter. Which they can then harvest for their preferred candidates. Making sure people on voter rolls can legally vote is ‘ethically dubious’? That’s an interesting perspective.
There is no convincing administrative argument against routine verification and cleanup of registries; deaths, moves, and clerical errors happen all the time. Regular maintenance is a commonsense safeguard that protects both the integrity of the ballot and the voters who follow the rules. When lists are accurate, officials can focus on running elections instead of defending avoidable mistakes.
Allowing rolls to sit unchecked invites bad outcomes: confusion at the polls, legal disputes, and a growing suspicion among citizens that elections are vulnerable to manipulation. Every instance of careless registration makes it harder to prove that results are clean, and that uncertainty benefits the party that resists transparency. For many citizens, visible accountability in administration is the clearest way to rebuild trust.
Editor’s Note: The Democrats are doing everything in their power to undermine the integrity of our elections.
Public officials should treat voter-roll upkeep as a nonpartisan duty, not a political advantage. States can respect privacy while still sharing the necessary data to confirm registrations and remove ineligible entries. If leaders truly value election legitimacy, they’ll back routine, transparent maintenance and stop turning simple stewardship into a partisan fight.
