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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...
2024 Election Integrity Win: Green Bay Performs Same-Day Voter Registration Verification After PILF Lawsuit
APRIL 2025 – Clean elections don’t happen just because your preferred candidate won. You have clean elections when you can measure compliance with election laws. For years, the City of Green Bay, Wisconsin, failed to perform post-election audits of addresses provided...
Oregon SOS Deletes Records Indicating Which Registrants Were Wrongly Identified as Deceased in ERIC Data
FEBRUARY 2025 -- The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) alerted the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to Oregon’s apparent violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1960. PILF draws attention to voter roll list maintenance document retention failures...
Data Show Foreigners Registered to Vote in Automatic Voter Registration in Oregon, South Dakota
JANUARY 2025 – Automatic voter registration programs are adding foreigners to voter rolls new data show. Records obtained by the Public Interest Legal Foundation have revealed failures in Oregon and South Dakota to keep foreigners off voter rolls in the 2024 Election...
Election Officials Are Registering Self-Confessed Foreign Nationals to Vote in Oakland
October 2024 – Imagine you are a county voter registrar. You receive a voter application containing the following: a full name you do not commonly see; a foreign birthplace; and a checkbox indicating that the applicant is not a U.S. citizen. Do you approve that...
47 Tied, Close Elections Have Already Happened in 2024
OCTOBER 2024 – The Public Interest Legal Foundation’s tally of tied and close vote elections continued to grow in 2024. Throughout the nation, thousands of elections have already occurred this year and some are producing close results. Tied and close elections used to...
Does Boston Have the Fix for Foreign Nationals Voting in U.S. Elections?
May 2024 – Boston probably doesn’t come to mind when cataloging places that have effective removal of aliens from voter rolls. But the longstanding requirement for an annual census taking (including questions about citizenship status) is used today to update local...
TIED ELECTIONS: 26 American Elections Deadlocked in 2023
“Please, God, please – let it be a landslide.” – Election Administrator’s Prayer MARCH 2024 – In 2023, the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s tally of tied and close vote elections continued to grow. Since PILF’s November 2022 report, the Tied Elections Database has...
Virginia Blocked ‘Non-Citizens, Deceased, Felons’ from ERIC’s ‘Eligible But Unregistered’ Voter Outreach
MARCH 2024 – During Virginia’s membership period with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), commonwealth officials had to block ineligible persons selected by ERIC from receiving voter registration instructions. Records disclosed to PILF demonstrated...