Protecting Your Vote

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

There are still many reforms that need to be passed before the 2024 elections. 

Earlier this year, New York City passed a law that allowed foreign citizens to vote in municipal elections. We filed a lawsuit that this law was passed with racial intent and, therefore, violates the 15th Amendment. 

In episode 9 of Protecting Your Vote, Phyllis Coachman, the lead plaintiff in our case, joins PILF President J. Christian Adams to discuss the lawsuit.

You can learn more about the case here. 

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.

We won a similar case in Pennsylvania over the deceased registrants on their voter rolls. In a settlement agreement, the Pennsylvania Department of State agreed to remove over 20,000 deceased registrants from the voter roll. 

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.

Learn More about Governor DeSantis’ proposal below:

In Episode 5 of Protecting Your Vote, PILF President J. Christian Adams discusses how vote by mail led to chaos and disenfranchisement in 2020. He delves into federal data that shows several swing states had more undeliverable and lost ballots than Biden’s margin of victory. 

The Public Interest Legal Foundation has released new analysis of federal data that revealed a alarmingly high level of mail ballots went missing and were undeliverable. Checkout our reports below.