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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.”
North Dakota election official challenges mail ballot counting law
“Election Day has ceased to be a day,” Foundation President J. Christian Adams said in a statement. “Instead, we have election month because states accept ballots that arrive days and even weeks after Election Day. Not only does this lead to distrust and chaos in the system, but it also violates federal law.
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.
Hundreds of noncitizens ended up on voting rolls in Maricopa County
By: Stephen Dinan More than 200 self-acknowledged noncitizens have managed to register to vote in...
How Bad Is Your State At Managing Voter Rolls? Find Out With This New Database
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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.
Lawsuit: NYC immigrant voting law favors Hispanics, Asians over Blacks
A controversial new city law that will allow non-citizens to vote in local elections would unconstitutionally bolster the political clout of Hispanic and Asian New Yorkers — at the expense of African-Americans, according to a new lawsuit.
J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a nonprofit representing the plaintiffs, said the process of getting the new law passed was “infested with racial motivation.”
Michigan still has more than 25K dead people on the voter rolls, lawsuit claims
“Secretary Benson has completely failed in her job as Secretary of State,” Adams told Fox News. “We’ve alerted her about the nearly 26,000 deceased registrants time and time again over the last year. She has refused to do her job and has made Michigan’s election less secure. We won a similar lawsuit regarding deceased registrants in Pennsylvania earlier this year. The law and the facts are on our side in this case.”
Sixteen million mystery ballots demonstrate the need for vote-integrity efforts
A new report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative group specializing in voting laws, makes abundantly clear why widespread mail-in balloting is a horrible idea.