RGV Duplicate Registrations, Fictitious Data Flagged in HAVA Complaint
ALEXANDRIA, VA (October 26, 2026) – The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a Help America Vote Act complaint in Texas, urging state officials to investigate and resolve 1,057 duplicate registrations across Congressional Districts 15, 28, and 34.
PILF found the duplicates by analyzing voter registration data across 22 counties in south Texas. The review identified 1,057 cases in which individuals appeared to be registered more than at least once.
Under the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA), states are required to maintain accurate voter registration records and eliminate duplicate names from their voter rolls, pursuant to 52 U.S.C. § 21083(a)(2)(B).
In its complaint, PILF states that 22 Texas counties are failing to meet these federal requirements and calls on state election officials to review the identified records, take corrective action, and implement procedures to prevent future duplicate registrations.
The Foundation’s HAVA complaint is supplemented with a list of 480+ registrants whose records show fictitious dates of birth. During the duplicates research, some of these 480 matched to other records apparently belonging to the same persons. Given the fictional data, the Foundation opted to set these false dates of birth apart from the duplicate finding.
“Tiny mistakes can alter outcomes,” said PILF President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams. “Duplicate registrations are easy to correct, and we hope Texas fixes the mountain of mistakes that PILF found, especially in Brownsville and McAllen.”
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is the nation’s only public interest law firm dedicated wholly to election integrity. The Foundation exists to assist states and others to aid the cause of election integrity and fight against lawlessness in American elections. Drawing on numerous experts in the field, PILF seeks to protect the right to vote and preserve the Constitutional framework of American elections.
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