SEPTEMBER 2021 – Pennsylvania lawmakers did not wait for COVID-19 to inject uncertainty in their elections by experimenting with expanded mail voting. In Fall 2019, the Commonwealth created a no-excuse absentee system with options for permanent mail voting. It also...

Another 217K Mail Ballots Are Unaccounted SEPTEMBER 2021 – While most places broke records with total amounts of ballots in the mail, Georgia’s 2020 count was slightly less than what it circulated in 2012. Yet in 2020, the Peach State broke records for undeliverable...

AUGUST 2021 – Unlike other states its size with an influence in national politics, Wisconsin could brag about the fact that its counts of undeliverable and “unknown” mail ballots never inundated the margin of victory for a statewide candidate—until the 2020 Election....

43 Million over Past Decade AUGUST 2021 -- In the face of a pandemic, states from across the nation hastily pushed traditionally in-person voters to mail ballots while, at the same time, trying to learn how to even administer such a scenario. Experts at PILF warned...

July 2021 -- Personnel is policy. Every time you hear about the need to pass H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, remember: Congress isn’t just passing a new set of rules—it is empowering scores of DOJ Civil Rights Division (“CRT”) Voting Section...

June 2021 -- Now that is looks like H.R. 1 will not pass, Democrats are moving toward a new bill, The John Lewis Voting Rights Act or H.R. 4. The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has written a backgrounder to better help the public understand this bill. “The...

Grant Monies Flowed Back to Facebook Ad Sales May 2021 – Flush with cash from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the Center for Tech and Civil Life (CTCL) flooded key Florida county election offices with money to subsidize procedures preferred by the outside group. As...

March 2021 – Flush with cash from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the Center for Tech and Civil Life (CTCL) flooded key Texas county election offices with cash to adopt procedures preferred by the outside group. With the dust on the election settled, it’s time to...

Statewide Trump/Biden Vote Difference Was 33K (March 2021) – The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) released a research brief detailing mail balloting return figures for Clark County, Nevada, during the 2020 General Election. Clark County 2020 General Election...