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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...
Serve and Observe: Detroit
May 2025 -- The Public Interest Legal Foundation deployed seasoned election observers to the...
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...
47 Tied, Close Elections Have Already Happened in 2024
OCTOBER 2024 – The Public Interest Legal Foundation’s tally of tied and close vote elections continued to grow in 2024. Throughout the nation, thousands of elections have already occurred this year and some are producing close results. Tied and close elections used to...
Does Boston Have the Fix for Foreign Nationals Voting in U.S. Elections?
May 2024 – Boston probably doesn’t come to mind when cataloging places that have effective removal of aliens from voter rolls. But the longstanding requirement for an annual census taking (including questions about citizenship status) is used today to update local...
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...
Virginia Blocked ‘Non-Citizens, Deceased, Felons’ from ERIC’s ‘Eligible But Unregistered’ Voter Outreach
MARCH 2024 – During Virginia’s membership period with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), commonwealth officials had to block ineligible persons selected by ERIC from receiving voter registration instructions. Records disclosed to PILF demonstrated...
Arizona: Majority of Registrants Cancelled Due to Foreign Nationality in Tucson Came from Partisan Voter Drives
400+ Cancellations for Citizenship in Pima, Maricopa Counties Since 2015 SIX Were Credited for Voting in Tucson in 2022 Midterms February 2024 – Since 2021, government records show 186 voter registrants were “involuntarily purged” for citizenship issues in Pima...