Reports

Oregon SOS Deletes Records Indicating Which Registrants Were Wrongly Identified as Deceased in ERIC Data

FEBRUARY 2025 -- The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) alerted the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to Oregon’s apparent violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1960. PILF draws attention to voter roll list maintenance document retention failures...

Data Show Foreigners Registered to Vote in Automatic Voter Registration in Oregon, South Dakota

JANUARY 2025 – Automatic voter registration programs are adding foreigners to voter rolls new data show. Records obtained by the Public Interest Legal Foundation have revealed failures in Oregon and South Dakota to keep foreigners off voter rolls in the 2024 Election...

Election Officials Are Registering Self-Confessed Foreign Nationals to Vote in Oakland

October 2024 – Imagine you are a county voter registrar. You receive a voter application containing the following: a full name you do not commonly see; a foreign birthplace; and a checkbox indicating that the applicant is not a U.S. citizen. Do you approve that...
TIED ELECTIONS: 26 American Elections Deadlocked in 2023

TIED ELECTIONS: 26 American Elections Deadlocked in 2023

“Please, God, please – let it be a landslide.” – Election Administrator’s Prayer MARCH 2024 – In 2023, the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s tally of tied and close vote elections continued to grow. Since PILF’s November 2022 report, the Tied Elections Database has...

Motor Voter at 30: North Carolina’s Noncitizen Problem

Motor Voter at 30: North Carolina’s Noncitizen Problem

Motor Voter is the Cause & Barrier to Stopping Noncitizen Voting June 2023 -- After 30 years under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) or “Motor Voter,” the unintended consequences of the law are clear in North Carolina: it has never been easier to register...

Final Frontier: ZuckBucks in Montana

Final Frontier: ZuckBucks in Montana

​Final Frontier tells the story of the lasting influence of Zuckbucks in Montana beyond the dollar figures and spending reports. Direct, left-wing funding of election administration is the last aspect to exert control over the election process. Purchasing the process – not the short-term electoral outcome – is the real play.

The rush is on, and local officials are already addicted to the easy money – whether they need it or not.

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