Michigan, a closely watched battleground state, has “one of the most bloated voter rolls in the nation” with 500,000 more registered voters than there are Michiganders of voting age, a local outlet found this week.
The report comes after the Republican National Committee revealed in a lawsuit in March that 53 counties had registration rates of 100% or higher based on U.S. Census data.
“These voter registration rates are abnormally or, in the case of counties with greater than 100% registration, impossibly high,” attorneys for the RNC wrote, arguing that the data showed the state’s voter list hygiene was not only poor but in violation of the National Voter Registration Act.