Reports

Maintaining Accurate Voter Registration Rolls: The Need to Rehabilitate the ERIC Program or Form an Alternative

Hans A. von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams J. Christian Adams, the President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), and The Heritage Foundation released a report detailing the major reforms the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) must...

Nearly 15 Million Mail Ballots Went Unaccounted for in 2020 Election

43 Million over Past Decade AUGUST 2021 -- In the face of a pandemic, states from across the nation hastily pushed traditionally in-person voters to mail ballots while, at the same time, trying to learn how to even administer such a scenario. Experts at PILF warned...

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...

31,000 Foreign Nationals in Colorado Sent Voter Registration Instructions by State Election Officials Before 2022 Midterms

State Blames ‘Data Analytic Error’ for Non-Citizens in 58 Counties Receiving Registration...

4 Things to Dislike about Ranked Choice Voting

RCV Converts Elections into a Consensus-Gathering Exercise October 2022 – Many Americans first...

788 American Elections (and Counting) Ended in Ties, Close Results

“Please, God, please – let it be a landslide.” – Election Administrator’s Prayer November 2022 –...

Critical Condition: American Voter Rolls Filled with Errors, Dead Voters, and Duplicate Registrations

View the full report here. INDIANAPOLIS — An independent, nationwide analysis of voter rolls in 42 states has identified thousands of probable deceased and duplicate registrants, as well as cases of individuals credited for voting more than once. The Public Interest...

John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Puts Partisan Bureaucrats in Total Control of Elections

June 2021 -- Now that is looks like H.R. 1 will not pass, Democrats are moving toward a new bill, The John Lewis Voting Rights Act or H.R. 4. The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has written a backgrounder to better help the public understand this bill. “The...

H.R. 1 (2021) Studies and Reference Materials

The Public Interest Legal Foundation offers a variety of resources to help citizens understand the dangers of H.R. 1 and accompanying legislation as it pertains to election integrity, state control of election procedures, and judicial independence. Included here is...

92K Clark County NV Mail Ballots Went to Wrong Addresses in 2020 Presidential Election

Statewide Trump/Biden Vote Difference Was 33K (March 2021) – The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) released a research brief detailing mail balloting return figures for Clark County, Nevada, during the 2020 General Election. Clark County 2020 General Election...

Building Bias: Urban Texas Counties Used $36 Million in ZuckBucks in 2020 Election

March 2021 – Flush with cash from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the Center for Tech and Civil Life (CTCL) flooded key Texas county election offices with cash to adopt procedures preferred by the outside group. With the dust on the election settled, it’s time to...

Garden State Gotcha: How Opponents of Citizenship Verification for Voting Are Putting New Jersey’s Noncitizens at Risk of Deportation

After a six-month review of New Jersey county voter registration files, the Public Interest Legal Foundation found numerous enforcement flaws for the National Voter Registration Act (Motor Voter) that unnecessarily expose noncitizens to future naturalization...

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