Election Reformers Get New Tools
Election Reformers Get New Tool to Pressure States to
Clean Up Voter Rolls
By Steven Kovac
Updated: March 7, 2023
A new interactive website database is now available for free
to individual citizens and election reform groups across the
country to help in the fight to get all states to obey a federal
election law mandating regular voter roll maintenance.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a national non-
profit law firm dedicated to election integrity, announced the
launch of the website on Feb. 27.
The data provided on the website is designed to encourage
some defiant state election officials to comply with the National
Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).
We hope this interactive database will draw attention to
the hundreds of thousands of errors in the voter rolls. Every
error in the voter rolls is a vulnerability in our elections that
can lead to fraud and abuse. Election officials must do their job
and keep accurate voter rolls, PILF President J. Christian Adams
said in a statement.
According to the federal statute, state election officials
must conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to
remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of
eligible voters.
Evidence of Nonfeasance
As evidence that some state election officials have failed to
make a reasonable effort, the database spotlights more than 317,000
deceased people that continue to appear on the registration lists
of certain states.
PILF researchers also found that 449,000 individuals are regis-
tered to vote in more than one state and discovered 54,000 same-
address duplicate voter registrations still on the books.
Attorneys for PILF have had to file lawsuits against election
officials in Pennsylvania, Texas, North Carolina, Mississippi,
Minnesota, and Michigan to force state election officials to do
their statutory duty to clean up the voter rolls.
In 2021, PILF succeeded in getting election officials in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to agree to remove 20,000 dead people
from its voter rolls.
In a screenshot from the DNCC's live stream of the 2020
virtual Democratic National Convention, Michigan Secretary of
State Jocelyn Benson addresses those attending on Aug. 20, 2020.
Since November 2020, PILF has tried to encourage and assist
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, to remove
25,975 deceased individuals from the voter rolls of her state.
Of these, 23,663 have been dead for five years or more, with
17,479 of them being dead for at least a decade, and 3,956 have
been deceased for at least 20 years.
After a year of inaction, PILF filed a federal lawsuit to
force Benson to comply with NVRA.
In response, Benson filed a motion to dismiss PILF's case.
On Aug. 25, 2022, the United States Western District Court
of Michigan denied Benson's motion to dismiss.
The court also denied the motions to intervene filed by the
Michigan Alliance for Retired Americans, the Detroit Downriver
Chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, and Rise, Inc.,
all liberal activist groups.
The Michigan Secretary of States Office doesn't comment on
pending litigation.
Presidential Citizens Award
In an online statement, Adams called it remarkable that
after the data was shared with Benson, the dead registrants
remained on Michigan's voter rolls.
It is astonishing that Secretary Benson is so vigorously
opposing effective list maintenance, he said.
Adams said the ongoing lawsuit was the first step to reduc-
ing the opportunity for fraud in Michigan elections and ensur-
ing that dead people aren't receiving ballots.
In January 2023, Benson traveled to the White House to be
presented with the Presidential Citizens Award by President
Joe Biden in honor of her service in the office and her courage
in standing up to election-denying protesters, Biden said.
The award is America's second-highest civilian award given
to a citizen for exemplary deeds or services for his or her
country or fellow citizens.
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Sadly, this is not the first time a prestigious award was
given to a corrupt Democrat simple because of their political
party.
We have an ex-President with a Nobel Prize because he was
black.
A Supreme Court Justice that can't define what a woman is
but she was female and black.
We have men competing in female sports because all the
liberal progressives allow it. They don't care about the people
who elected them.
We have a Senator who can't communicate with anyone without
a machine to transpond words spoken to him. But he is in the
hospital with another heart issue for weeks now.
A gay Transportation Secretary that has spent more time
wasting American's tax money taking vacations, maternity leave,
and has yet to accomplish anything but he checked the Biden
blocks that are NEVER based on qualifications.
There are still over 15 states that still have not purged
their voter rolls.
Biden has not set the bar too high if he is basing those
he selects upon his personal capabilities.
America as we used to know it no longer exists but we have
got to pray for God's intervention.
Conservatively,
John
Conservativelyjohn.com 