Election Frontline

Children are Voting!

Counties in Maryland law allow public school children in grades 6th through 12th to vote for a student member of the county school board with actual voting power. In fact, it was the child member who helped decide to stop schools from reopening. Yet, Howard County...

Maine Continues to Fight Transparency

The United States District Court ruled in PILF’s favor that the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) prohibits fines and use restrictions on voter roll data.Now, the Maine Secretary of State is appealing this ruling! Why do they continue to fight...

Secretary Schmidt, Where is the Transparency You Called for in 2017?

In 2017, the Pennsylvania State Department admitted that foreign nationals had been registering and voting in the Commonwealth for decades. Al Schmidt, then a Philadelphia City Commissioner, testified that the Department of State’s analysis revealed over 100,000...

Every Single Vote Matters

We launched a new tool tracking elections that ended in ties or were decided by less than 30...

J. Christian Adams: Fairfax County is ignoring the law

J. Christian Adams: Fairfax County is ignoring the law

This week, the Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit in Fairfax. The County is violating Virginia law by accepting and approving applications for absentee and mail-in ballots that do not include the last four digits of the applicant’s Social Security...

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