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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...
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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