Reports

PILF Letter to DHS: SAVE Optimizations Support Voter Roll List Maintenance

JULY 2025 – PILF issued a public letter backing recent Department of Homeland Security efforts to optimize SAVE (Systemic Alien Verification for Entitlements) so state governments can more easily access current immigration data during voter registration list...

Serve and Observe: Detroit

May 2025 -- The Public Interest Legal Foundation deployed seasoned election observers to the Detroit metro on Election Day 2024. Serve and Observe is a new report series by PILF to catalog events witnessed in polls around the nation. The Detroit report marks the first...

2024 Election Integrity Win: Green Bay Performs Same-Day Voter Registration Verification After PILF Lawsuit

APRIL 2025 – Clean elections don’t happen just because your preferred candidate won. You have clean elections when you can measure compliance with election laws. For years, the City of Green Bay, Wisconsin, failed to perform post-election audits of addresses provided...
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...

Chicago Records: 394 Foreign Nationals Removed from Voter Roll

Chicago Records: 394 Foreign Nationals Removed from Voter Roll

Motor Voter at 30: DMVs Putting Foreigners on Voter Rolls May 2023 – Since 2007, Chicago city records show the sporadic removals of 394 foreign nationals from the voter registration roll. From this group, 20 individuals are recorded casting 85 ballots. This is not an...

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