California to Remove Up to 1.5 Million Inactive Voters From Registration Rolls to Settle Lawsuit

People cast their ballots in voting booths at the Second Street Elementary School in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on Nov. 6, 2018, as Americans across the country cast their votes for the midterm elections. Frederic Brown/AFP/Getty Images

The State of California and Los Angeles County agreed to remove up to 1.5 million inactive voters from voter rolls Dec. 3 in order to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a watchdog group.

The settlement agreement (pdf), filed Dec. 3 with U.S. District Court Judge Manuel Real, requires the state and the county to notify all of the 1.5 million potentially ineligible voters and remove them from voter rolls if there is no response.