Throughout the recent budget process, some lawmakers made unsubstantiated claims that Pennsylvania’s voter rolls are bloated – full of people who have long ago moved or died. This rhetoric, along with proposed legislation to “modernize” voter roll maintenance, paints a picture of hundreds of thousands of ineligible voters submitting illegal ballots and skewing...
Balancing transparency and privacy to secure democracy Public voter registration data is critical to democracy in the United States. In nearly every state, a public file contains essential information about voters’ eligibility (address, age, districts, precinct, and polling location). Beyond their value to campaigns and others promoting voter participation, these...
Report Finds Frivolous Voter Eligibility Challenges Burden Election Administrators, Undermine Confidence in Elections, and Intimidate Voters Protect Democracy published Unraveling the Rise of Mass Voter Challenges, a new report that sheds light on the growth of mass challenges to voter eligibility orchestrated by election-denying organizations. The report examines...
How voter challenge laws are being abused to disrupt the election process Introduction Introduction In November 2023, just after off-year elections and as states were preparing for the upcoming presidential primaries, a registered voter in Waterford Township, Michigan challenged the voting eligibility of over 1,000 of their neighbors. A month later, the clerk of the...
U.S. voters are not with the activist left that is trying to block voter ID laws in every state and voting jurisdiction. In a new Gallup poll, nearly 80% of Americans favor photo ID for voting, leaving one to wonder, “what’s wrong with the other 20 percent?” But despite this good news, the poll also shows the election integrity movement has more work to do as 65...
First aired on November 18, 2022 and Shared by permission from First Right a podcast of the Voter Reference Foundation From the moment polls opened at the large voting centers in Maricopa County on November 8, 2022, until they finally closed that evening, there was nothing resembling a normal election day process in literally half of the voting centers: massive...
Heather Honey, the founder of Verity Vote, is an open-source investigator. Utilizing her expert research skills in a new report, Heather exposes the secret connection whereby ERIC, (Electronic Registration Information Center) a taxpayer-funded entity, is a primary obstacle to cleaning America’s voter rolls. Founded and initially funded by the left ostensibly to...
When Georgia passed new election integrity laws in 2021, liberals embarked on a misinformation tour claiming it would suppress minority voters. President Biden called it “Jim Crow 2.0” But, oops. Georgia’s May primary recorded the highest early voter turnout in its history; three times as many early voters than 2018 and an increase of more than 100,000 African...
Wisconsin’s election code unequivocally bans ballot drop boxes in the Badger State. Yet after the Wisconsin Election Commission overstepped every aspect of its authority by allowing ballot drop boxes in the 2020 election, three Wisconsin State Supreme Court justices disagreed that state law was binding in the case of drop boxes. Fortunately for Wisconsin voters, the...
v During CPI’s Arizona Statewide Election Integrity Network Summit in March of 2022, Cleta sat down with election integrity powerhouse Gina Swoboda, who has singlehandedly made great progress in making every state’s voter rolls and vote histories available to citizens across the country, all while leading election reform efforts by the Arizona legislature. Gina has...