Reports

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...

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...
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...

California Rejected 226K Mail Ballots in 2022 Elections

California Rejected 226K Mail Ballots in 2022 Elections

10 Million Mail Ballots Unaccounted for in Nov. Midterms January 2023 – Significant numbers of mail ballots were rejected during California’s first year into its mass-mail balloting. During the 2022 primary and general elections 226,250 mail ballots were rejected by...

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