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VICTORY: PILF Helped Restore the Day in Election Day with Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Win
17 States and the District of Columbia accept and tabulate mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. (Alexandria, VA) – October 26, 2024: Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion that federal law requires mail ballots to arrive by...
PILF Files Legal Brief to Restore the Day in Election Day
17 States and the District of Columbia accept and tabulate mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. (Alexandria, VA) – August 26, 2024: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that a Mississippi law...
Court Hearing in PILF’s Lawsuit to Have Minnesota’s NVRA Election Transparency Exemption Declared Invalid
Supreme Court precedent in Shelby County v. Holder orders that Congress cannot indiscriminately treat states differently. (Minneapolis, MN) – October 23, 2024: Today, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is in court arguing against Minnesota’s motion...
PILF Sues Wisconsin Elections Commission for Concealing Origins of Election-Day Registration Guidance
For more than a year, the Foundation has been trying to obtain records relating to the creation of guidance issued to election officials about same-day registration postcards. (Madison, WI) – October 18, 2024: The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit...
OCTOBER SURPRISE: New Film Highlights Thousands of Commercial Addresses on Arizona’s Voter Roll
PILF documented this widespread problem to force Arizona election officials to investigate these addresses and remove improper registrations (Alexandria, VA) – October 16, 2024: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) traveled across Arizona inspecting hundreds of...
ICYMI: PILF Won Access to South Carolina’s Voter Roll
Thanks to PILF’s litigation across the country, it is now a well-established precedent that the public has a right to inspect states’ voter rolls. (Alexandria, VA) – September 24, 2024: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) won access to the South Carolina voter...
47 Tied and Close Elections have Already Happened in 2024
Your Vote Matters This November. (Alexandria, VA) – October 9, 2024: The Public Interest Legal Foundation’s (PILF) Tied Elections Database grew this year to 635 tied elections and 173 elections decided by one vote. These elections illustrate that one illegal...
Win for Transparency in Colorado: Court Orders the State to Disclose ERIC Data Reports
The Foundation’s lawsuits have led to ERIC changing its membership agreement to allow the disclosure of data reports more than three years old. (Alexandria, VA) – September 20, 2024: The United States District Court in the District of Colorado has issued...
PILF Breaks Down ERIC’s Wall of Secrecy
Other states should take notice that the Electronic Registration Information Center reports are voter list maintenance documents that the public has a right to inspect. (Alexandria, VA) – September 20, 2023: The United States District Court in Alaska has issued an...