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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...

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...

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

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

4 Things to Dislike about Ranked Choice Voting

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

Report: 28 Million Mail Ballots Went Missing in Past Decade

More Than 2 Million Ballots Also Sent to Wrong Addresses (INDIANAPOLIS, IN.) – April 13, 2020: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) today released a research brief detailing national figures for mail balloting failures, according to previous federal surveys....

Calm Before the Storm: Are Palm Beach County’s Elections Protected Against Emerging Threats?

Year-Out Review Finds Vulnerabilities in Election Systems (WEST PALM BEACH, FL.) – November 4, 2019: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) today released Calm Before the Storm: Are Palm Beach County’s Elections Protected Against Emerging Threats?, a new report...

244 Counties Have More Registered Voters than Live Adults

29 States and D.C. Show Bloated Voter Rolls (INDIANAPOLIS, IN.) – August 19, 2019: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is spotlighting jurisdictions across 29 states for in-depth inspections of voter registration records and local list maintenance practices in...

Motor Voter Mayhem: Michigan’s Voter Rolls in Disrepair

Michigan, like other states and jurisdictions studied before, demonstrates how noncitizens become registered to vote through DMV transactions and others like it required by the National Voter Registration Act (aka Motor Voter).

Safe Spaces: How Sanctuary Cities Are Giving Cover to Noncitizens on the Voter Rolls

Sanctuary jurisdictions in seven states disclosed various data demonstrating how noncitizens entered their voter registration systems.

Steeling the Vote: Allegheny County Reveals How Citizenship Verification Protects Citizens and Immigrants Alike

Amid federal litigation with the Pennsylvania Department of State for complete access to noncitizen voter registration records, Allegheny County election officials disclosed hundreds of pages detailing how noncitizens were regularly offered voter registration by...

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