Benjamin Wittes appeared twice on the District of Columbia voter rolls, once as Benjamin Wittes and once as Benjamin Sittis.
Posted by The Lawfare Podcast, Checked
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The Lawfare PodcastOct 8, 2026
None of the provided sources addresses whether Benjamin Wittes or a "Benjamin Sittis" appeared on DC voter rolls. The only support is the speaker's own account in the podcast passage, which cannot corroborate the claim, and the extraction faithfully reflects that passage.
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What was said
… I i do think that they are, notwithstanding the Benjamin Citus episode, they are more concerned about they're more deferential to concerns about voter fraud than I am, given the prevalence of it. And, you know, my my experience with this is that, at one point, ah, I showed up twice on the the DC voter rolls, once as Benjamin Wittes and once as Benjamin Sittis. They had Benjamin Sittis had a different party registration than Benjamin Wittes, but otherwise seemed to have a lot in common with him. …
The Lawfare Podcast · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The DC Board of Elections document (removal list from a 2023 canvass) reports total voters removed from the roll but does not mention Wittes, Sittis, or any duplicate registration.[5]
Context. The ACLU FOIA case page and the Lawfare podcast transcript identify Wittes as a Lawfare editor and journalist, but neither mentions voter registration or a duplicate entry under his name or a similar one.[6][7]
Context. The remaining sources (Full Fact search, PolitiFact listing, DC Court of Appeals case search, govinfo CRI2010 entry, Wikipedia, Marshall Project) do not address DC voter registration records for Wittes.[1][2][3][4][8][9][10][11]
Sources
11 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 primary, 7 not rated
- 1Searchfullfact.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Latest Fact-Checkspolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Case Searchefile.dcappeals.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 4CRI2010 - WITTES, BENJAMINgovinfo.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 5[PDF] DC Board of Electionsdcboe.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, October 16lawfaremedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 7Bower v. Social Security Administration | American Civil Liberties Unionaclu.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 8Misinformation Toolkit – Full Factdev.fullfact.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 9Fact-checks | PolitiFactapi.politifact.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 10Benjamin Wittes - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 11Benjamin Wittesthemarshallproject.org · not rated · cited for: context
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