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2025 Maine Voter Roll Study
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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...
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...
A Nevada U.S. Senate Race Was Decided by 7,928 Votes. 95,556 Ballots Were Sent to ‘Bad’ Addresses.
Result Determined Party Control of U.S. Senate March 2023 – As states expand mail voting, Nevada’s 2022 midterm elections offer an alarming case study of close results as they relate to rejected, unreturned, and undeliverable ballots. Nevada’s U.S. Senate race was...
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 Materials January 2023 – In the final weeks of the 2022 Midterm Elections, one story from Colorado shocked the country after Colorado election officials admitted to mailing more...
788 American Elections (and Counting) Ended in Ties, Close Results
“Please, God, please – let it be a landslide.” – Election Administrator’s Prayer November 2022 – The Public Interest Legal Foundation’s running tally of tied and close vote elections continues to grow. One vote matters. Sometimes, that one vote arrives (or is found)...
4 Things to Dislike about Ranked Choice Voting
RCV Converts Elections into a Consensus-Gathering Exercise October 2022 – Many Americans first came into contact with the concept of Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) only months ago when former Alaska Governor and VP nominee Sarah Palin lost a special congressional...
570 American Elections (and Counting) Ended in Ties, Close Results
“Please, God, please – let it be a landslide.” – Election Administrator’s Prayer October 2022 – Nothing gives officials charged with administering elections nightmares like the prospect of a tied election. Every procedural mistake or election crime – no matter how...







