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LAWSUIT: Voter Machines in Texas Allow Officials to Look Up How Individual People Voted

The 1st Amendment and 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantee a right to a secret ballot (Houston, TX) – November 13, 2024: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a federal lawsuit against Harris County for violating voters' right to a...

VICTORY: PILF Helped Restore the Day in Election Day with Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Win

17 States and the District of Columbia accept and tabulate mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. (Alexandria, VA) – October 26, 2024: Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion that federal law requires mail ballots to arrive by...

OCTOBER SURPRISE: New Film Highlights Thousands of Commercial Addresses on Arizona’s Voter Roll

PILF documented this widespread problem to force Arizona election officials to investigate these addresses and remove improper registrations (Alexandria, VA) – October 16, 2024: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) traveled across Arizona inspecting hundreds of...

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...

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...

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...

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...