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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
Win for Transparency in Colorado: Court Orders the State to Disclose ERIC Data Reports
PILF’s Lawsuit Forced Clark County Election Officials to Investigate and Fix Errors on the Voter Roll
Michigan Voter Roll Clean-Up Case Heads to Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
PILF Files Lawsuits to Have Minnesota and Wisconsin’s NVRA Election Transparency Exemptions Declared Invalid
First Circuit Court of Appeals: Voter Roll is a Public Record, Maine Cannot Punish Voter Roll Researchers
Records from PILF Litigation: North Carolina Identified 1,400 Registrants who Appeared to be Foreign Nationals
PILF Launches Interactive Voter Roll Error Database
Win for the Rule of Law: Delaware Supreme Court Rules that Universal Mail-In Voting and Same Day Registration Violate the Delaware Constitution
In the News
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.”
A victory for the rule of law in our elections
Our win in Delaware is one small step toward restoring order and predictability to election administration. PILF will bring more cases like it when election officials — or legislatures — do not follow the commands of law in our elections.
J. Christian Adams: New Jersey’s voter rolls contain people who were born during the Byzantine Empire
We released a report on the disastrous state of New Jersey’s voter rolls. There are over 8,000 duplicate registrants.
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