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House Administration chair urges stricter voter-roll maintenance, introduces MEGA Act
Summary
The chair of the House Committee on House Administration opened an oversight hearing on state voter-roll maintenance, cited examples of noncitizens on rolls, criticized gaps in NVRA and HAVA, and introduced the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act to require states to perform list maintenance at least every 30 days.
The chair of the House Committee on House Administration opened a hearing on state voter-roll maintenance on the committee’s oversight of federal elections, saying the panel will examine how states identify and remove ineligible registrants and how they use the SAVE database.
The chair said he sent letters to 10 state secretaries of state in January asking about voter-list maintenance, voter eligibility including citizenship, and registration practices. He identified two secretaries present at the hearing: Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab and Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, and thanked them for appearing.
The chair cited recent examples he said illustrate problems with current processes: he said 62 noncitizens were…
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