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PILF President, J. Christian Adams joined KFYI's James Harris to discuss our new report on Maricopa County that reveals according to government records 222 foreign nationals have been removed from the county voter roll since 2015. And yes, some of them have voted. Read the full report: https://publicinterestlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Maricopa-AZ-Noncitizen-Report-2023-FINAL.pdf

PILF President, J. Christian Adams joined WPHT to discuss the Foundation's ongoing litigation with the Pennsylvania Secretary of State to disclose alien voting records. In 2017, the Pennsylvania Secretary of State admitted that foreign nationals had been voting in Commonwealth elections for decades. Al Schmidt, who was then a member of the Philadelphia city commissioners, demanded action and transparency from the State Department. Now as the Secretary of State, he is in a position to meet his own demands. Learn more at: https://publicinterestlegal.org/cases/pilf-v-torres-et-al/

Mac Warner, West Virginia Secretary of State, joins PILF President, J. Christian Adams to discuss the challenges he faced to clean up voter rolls in West Virginia. He has removed over 360,000 names from the voter rolls and made West Virginia elections more secure.

America's voter rolls are filled with hundreds of thousands of errors. PILF launched a new interactive database that allows people to see the historical errors in each state. Find out how your state is doing in keeping its voter roll up to date: https://publicinterestlegal.org/issues/voter-roll-error-map/

In this episode of Protecting Your Vote, Jane Brady, the former Attorney General of Delaware, joins PILF President, J. Christian Adams to discuss our victory for the rule of law in Delaware’s elections. Brady served as our local counsel in our lawsuit against the state’s election law passed in 2022 that would have allowed universal vote by mail and same day voter registration. Last month, Delaware’s Supreme Court ruled the election statute violated the Delaware Constitution.

Tuesday is Election Day! In this episode of our Podcast, PILF President, J. Christian Adams, breaks down what election violations you should be on the lookout for at your polling place. He also myth busts some things that you may think are illegal, but are actually protected under federal law.

Does your state have laws that allow you to have free and fair elections? Does your state take all the necessary efforts to clean its voter rolls? Hans von Spakovksy, Manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at The Heritage Foundation, joins PILF President J. Christian Adams to discuss the Foundation’s Election Integrity Scorecard.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation launched a tool tracking all elections that ended in ties across the country. PILF President, J. Christian Adams joined David Webb to discuss this and how it illustrates that importance of not letting fraudulent votes or errors decide the winner of an election. They also discussed early voting in Pennsylvania. To learn more about tie elections visit: https://publicinterestlegal.org/reports/570-american-elections-and-counting-ended-in-ties-close-results/

As the nation’s only public interest law firm dedicated wholly to election integrity, the Public Interest Legal Foundation has been fighting for fair elections for years. Now, the Foundation has launched the Election Accountability Resources Center to share some of its election expertise with the other frontline workers holding elections accountable: state officials and citizens. The Election Accountability Resources project is geared towards state legislators, state secretaries of state, state attorneys general, and citizens – four key players in fair elections. These groups of people have been neglected for far too long in this critical fight.

In February 2022, we filed a lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections that the City's foreign citizen voting law violates the 15th Amendment. Phyllis Coachman, a Black New York City Voter and lead Plaintiff in the case, joins PILF President J. Christian Adams to discuss the lawsuit. You can learn more about the case here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/press/pilf-sues-nyc-board-of-elections-over-law-allowing-foreign-citizens-to-vote/

In this episode, Ken Blackwell, the former Ohio Secretary of State, joins PILF President, J. Christian Adams, to discuss how the 2022 elections went from an election integrity perspective.

Episode 8 of our podcast discusses our federal lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, for failing to remove deceased registrants from the voter rolls. Our analysis reveals that as of August 2021, there were over 25,975 deceased registrants on Michigan’s voter rolls. Almost 4,000 of these registrants have been dead for over two decades. Learn more about the lawsuit here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/press/breaking-pilf-sues-michigan-secretary-of-state-for-failing-to-remove-deceased-registrants-from-their-voter-rolls/ We won a similar case in Pennsylvania over the deceased registrants on their voter rolls. Learn more about that victory here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/press/lawsuit-to-remove-dead-voters-in-pennsylvania-ends-with-win-for-election-integrity/

Episode 7 of Protecting Your Vote details the important problem of county prosecutors not perusing election crimes. People often point to the low number of election crime prosecutions as evidence that there is little to no voter fraud in the U.S. There is a major problem with this talking point. County prosecutors more often than not do not act on criminal referrals they receive from supervisors of elections. The Foundation released a new report, Safe Harbor, that documents this problem in Florida’s big counties. We found 156 referrals from nine county supervisors of elections about potential criminal election law violations. Not a single one of these referrals was prosecuted. Governor Ron DeSantis has a solution to fix this problem. He has proposed giving state government officials a concurrent power to prosecute election crimes. This will provide a check and balance to the failure to enforce the law by county officials. Read Safe Harbor here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/reports/safe-harbor-how-many-potential-election-crimes-languish-in-florida-prosecutors-offices/ Learn More about Governor DeSantis’ proposal here: Washington Examiner: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/desantis-is-right-a-state-election-crimes-agency-will-make-elections-more-secure Tampa Free Press: https://www.tampafp.com/op-ed-florida-needs-to-beef-up-election-crimes-enforcement/

PILF President J. Christian Adams joined The Sean Hannity Radio Show to discuss our lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, for failure to remove deceased registrants from the voter rolls. PILF found nearly 26,000 deceased registrants on the state's active voter rolls and even the gravestones of some of the deceased registrants. You can learn more here: publicinterestlegal.org/press/breaking-pilf-sues-michigan-secretary-of-state-for-failing-to-remove-deceased-registrants-from-their-voter-rolls/

Children are voting in the United States! This episode of the podcast delves into the push to normalize child voting. In Howard County, Maryland, Children in the public schools that are in sixth grade and up are voting for school board. The Public Interest Legal Foundation has filed a lawsuit that alleges that this child voting scheme violates the 1st and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. You can learn more about the case below: https://publicinterestlegal.org/cases/kim-and-holland-v-board-of-education-of-howard-county/

The 2020 election was the first election conducted by mass vote by mail. It lead to chaos and disenfranchisement. The Public Interest Legal Foundation has released new analysis of federal data that revealed that election officials do not know what happened to nearly 15 million mail ballots. Read the study here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/featured/nearly-15-million-mail-ballots-went-unaccounted-for-in-2020-election/ The Foundation also analyzed mail ballots in many swing states. Troublingly, in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Wisconsin more ballots went missing and were undeliverable than Biden's margin of victory in those states. You can read these state studies below. Pennsylvania: https://publicinterestlegal.org/featured/440k-mail-ballots-went-missing-or-undeliverable-amid-81k-vote-margin-of-victory-in-pa-2020-presidential/ Georgia: https://publicinterestlegal.org/featured/2020-biden-won-georgia-by-11k-votes-27k-mail-ballots-bounced-off-bad-addresses/ Wisconsin: https://publicinterestlegal.org/featured/83k-mail-ballots-went-missing-or-undeliverable-amid-20k-vote-margin-of-victory-in-wi-2020-presidential/

Episode 4 of Protecting Your Vote will tell you everything you need to know about Zuckbucks. Zuckbucks refers to the millions of dollars given to election offices across the country by Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerburg. These funds were designed to change election procedures and turnout voters in heavily urban areas. The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has conducted original research on how Zuckbucks were spent in Texas and Florida. Links to both reports are below. https://publicinterestlegal.org/reports/building-bias-urban-texas-counties-used-36-million-in-zuckbucks-in-2020-election/ https://publicinterestlegal.org/reports/28-of-florida-zuckbucks-lingered-after-the-2020-election-tainting-midterms/ Learn more below about PILF's victory in forcing Palm Beach County to return their unspent Zuckbucks. https://publicinterestlegal.org/election-frontline/the-era-of-zuckbucks-in-florida-election-administration-ends/

In July 2021, the Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a motion to intervene to help defend Georgia’s election integrity law against the Department of Justice lawsuit. PILF was the first group to file a motion to intervene to defend Georgia’s election integrity law against the DOJ. Learn more about issues with mail ballots: https://publicinterestlegal.org/featured/nearly-15-million-mail-ballots-went-unaccounted-for-in-2020-election/ Read PILF President J. Christian Adams in the Washington Examiner: The DOJ is Abusing Its Power in Georgia: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-doj-is-abusing-its-power-in-georgia Learn more about H.R. 4 and the DOJ's past abuse of the pre-clearance power: https://publicinterestlegal.org/hr-4/

In Episode 2 of Protecting Your Vote, PILF President J. Christian Adams dives into the vulnerabilities in our electoral system from dirty voter rolls that include people registered more than once and with incorrect addresses to dead voters.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is the nation’s only public interest law firm dedicated solely to election integrity. We are the nation’s most effective legal organization protecting the right to vote through litigation, investigation, research, and education. PILF has worked to preserve the Constitutional framework of American elections for nearly a decade, well before it became a hot issue in 2020. Join our organization today. https://publicinterestlegal.org/donate/

Here's what every voter need to know about vote by mail. We have federal data that proves not only is vote by mail less secure, but it also leads to disenfranchisement. Learn more at publicinterestlegal.org