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Foundation Findings

The Foundation’s September 2020 Report, Critical Condition: American Voter Rolls Filled with Errors, Dead Voters, and Duplicate Registrations, Demonstrated the Disrepair of America’s Voter Rolls

Deceased Registrants Identified

Duplicate Registrants Identified

Registrants Listing Nonresidential Addresses

PILF Updates

ICYMI: PILF Won Access to South Carolina’s Voter Roll

Thanks to PILF’s litigation across the country, it is now a well-established precedent that the public has a right to inspect states’ voter rolls. (Alexandria, VA) – September 24, 2024: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) won access to the South Carolina voter...

Win for Transparency in Colorado: Court Orders the State to Disclose ERIC Data Reports

The Foundation’s lawsuits have led to ERIC changing its membership agreement to allow the disclosure of data reports more than three years old. (Alexandria, VA) – September 20, 2024: The United States District Court in the District of Colorado has issued...

PILF’s Lawsuit Forced Clark County Election Officials to Investigate and Fix Errors on the Voter Roll

PILF fought to ensure that commercial addresses where no one lives will not receive mail ballots in the 2024 presidential election.   (Las Vegas, NV) – August 23, 2024: In response to the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s (PILF) lawsuit, Lorena Portillo—the Clark...

Michigan Voter Roll Clean-Up Case Heads to Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

This is a precedent-setting case that will decide the standard for what is “reasonable” under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). (Lansing, MI) – May 29, 2024: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed an appeal brief with the Sixth Circuit Court of...

PILF Files Lawsuits to Have Minnesota and Wisconsin’s NVRA Election Transparency Exemptions Declared Invalid

Supreme Court precedent in Shelby County v. Holder orders that Congress cannot indiscriminately treat states differently. (Alexandria, VA) – April 30, 2024: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed two federal lawsuits to have Minnesota and...

First Circuit Court of Appeals: Voter Roll is a Public Record, Maine Cannot Punish Voter Roll Researchers

Maine’s restrictions on the use of the voter roll were enacted to keep election watchdogs, like PILF, from analyzing and speaking about errors in the voter roll. (Alexandria, VA) – February 5, 2024: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) secured a landmark ruling...

Records from PILF Litigation: North Carolina Identified 1,400 Registrants who Appeared to be Foreign Nationals 

Motor Voter is the number one cause of foreign nationals getting registered to vote across the country and hampers officials’ ability to remove them. (Raleigh, NC) – June 22, 2023: Prior to the 2014 midterm elections, North Carolina had more than...

PILF Launches Interactive Voter Roll Error Database

Voter roll database reveals hundreds of thousands of errors across the country. (Washington, DC) – February 27, 2023:  Today, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is launching a new interactive website tool that allows individuals to see...

Win for the Rule of Law: Delaware Supreme Court Rules that Universal Mail-In Voting and Same Day Registration Violate the Delaware Constitution

The Public Interest Legal Foundation secured a legal victory to invalidate a state’s election statute. (Dover, DE) – October 7, 2022: In July of 2022, the Delaware General Assembly passed a law permitting mail-in voting for any reason and...

In the News

Editorial Board: The Fifth Circuit on the Voting Rights Act

The law protects black voters and Hispanic voters, not coalitions. The Fifth Circuit oversees courts in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and judges there now have one less reason to strike down democratically passed district maps.

Vegas voters registered with addresses at topless bar, casino: lawsuit

“In Clark County, people are registered to vote from strip clubs, casinos, gas stations and more crazy addresses where it appears no one could reasonably live,” said J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which sued.

Controversial Wisconsin Clerk Admits To Violating Election Law, Claims She Doesn’t Understand It

In response to a complaint filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, Jeffreys “concedes that she has not been strictly adhering to the statutory requirements in Wisconsin Statutes.”

Conservative firm sues WEC’s Meagan Wolfe for access to Wisconsin voter list

“We believe transparency should apply in all 50 states, not just 44,” PILF President J. Christian Adams said. “Wisconsin and Minnesota have an exemption from transparency obligations because of things they did 30 years ago or more.”

Maine must release voter rolls to conservative group for independent audits, federal court rules

PILF President J. Christian Adams called the decision issued Friday by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston a “monumental victory for transparency in elections.”

New Database Shows a Single Vote Has Altered Outcomes in Hundreds of Elections

A new database created by the Public Interest Legal Foundation shows that one single vote has altered the outcome of hundreds of elections. Tied elections, like election crimes, happen far more often than you think.

As noncitizens cast ballots, ‘Motor Voter’ law needs reform

As PILF rightly argued, the Motor Voter law needs to be modified and updated. Its guarantees for greater transparency should be kept or even strengthened, and its loopholes allowing fraud should be closed.

Hundreds of noncitizens ended up on voting rolls in Maricopa County

More than 200 self-acknowledged noncitizens have managed to register to vote in Arizona’s Maricopa County and at least nine of them have cast ballots in federal elections, according to a report. The study is the first in a series of reports by the Public Interest Legal Foundation to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Motor Voter law.

How Bad Is Your State At Managing Voter Rolls? Find Out With This New Database

The Public Interest Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm focused on cleaning state voter lists, has launched a new interactive tool for concerned citizens to monitor their states’ voter rolls. The database lists current voter roll errors in all 50 states’ voter lists including duplicate registrants, deceased voters or those who have moved out of state, and voters registered at commercial addresses.

10 Million 2022 California Ballots Unaccounted For, Report Finds

“Mail ballots disenfranchise. There are many reasons mail ballots fail ultimately to count,” J. Christian Adams, President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation said in a press statement. “No one casting a ballot at home can correct an error before it’s too late. California’s vote-by-mail demonstration should serve as a warning to state legislators elsewhere.”   

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