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2025 Maine Voter Roll Study

July 8, 2025 – The Public Interest Legal Foundation alerts Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to apparent flaws within the voter roll. Topline findings include: Deceased Registrants: 18,453 Same-Address Duplicate and Triplicate Registrants: 1,498 Interstate...

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 optimize SAVE (Systemic Alien Verification for Entitlements) so state governments can more easily access current immigration data during voter registration list...

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...
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...

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

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

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

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...

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