The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) today sent a formal letter to the North Carolina State Board of Elections detailing serious concerns about the accuracy of the state’s voter registration data. The letter follows the Board’s announcement of its “Registration Repair” initiative and identifies tens of thousands of questionable records that could be handled under that program.
The Foundation’s review uncovered:
- 29,414 potential interstate duplicate registrations, including:
- 17,817 with Florida
- 6,247 with New York
- 4,383 with California
- 12,700+ same-address duplicates, often due to name typos, hyphenation issues, or missing Social Security data.
- 230 inter-county duplicates, indicating problems within North Carolina’s own voter registration system.
- 613 registrants with placeholder or fake birthdates.
“These findings suggest North Carolina’s voter rolls are plagued by the same types of errors we’ve documented in other states,” said PILF President J. Christian Adams. “We applaud the State Board’s ‘Registration Repair’ initiative, but the real test will be whether this data leads to meaningful cleanup.”
This letter is part of PILF’s ongoing campaign to expose and remedy voter roll issues nationwide. Similar letters and findings have recently been issued to officials in Pennsylvania (read here), New Jersey (read here), and Maine (read here).
“Our analysis is built to help election officials fix these problems,” Adams added. “We look forward to working with North Carolina to do just that.”
The full letter to the North Carolina State Board of Elections can be read here.
For more information or to schedule an interview with J. Christian Adams, please contact Douglas Blair at dblair@publicinterestlegal.org or call 503-956-9899