VoteBeat Arizona: A guide to understanding the debate over keeping voter rolls ‘clean’

Published On: September 04th, 2025

VoteBeat Arizona quoted Logan Churchwell, our research director, about PILF’s effort s to hold states accountable for keeping their voter rolls clean.

In a recent case in Michigan, for example, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the state’s actions to remove the names of thousands of dead voters from the rolls were sufficient, even though the plaintiff, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, claimed to have identified thousands more on the rolls.

Logan Churchwell, research director at the foundation said in an interview that the court’s decision amounted to giving Michigan an “E for effort.” He said his organization believes there should be a higher standard that would reduce the risk of fraud and administrative error.

Read the full article here.

Public Interest Legal Foundation