The next presidential election will be here before we know it. The hard work to improve the functioning of our elections must begin now. Filing lawsuits while voting is already happening or ballots are being counted almost always leads to failure.
Lawsuits take years. For instance, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), of which I am president, has been involved in litigation with the Pennsylvania secretary of state for five years over a "data analytical error" that led to thousands of foreign nationals getting registered to vote. You read that right, five years. We recently won summary judgment in the case, but we had three different secretaries of state as defendants during this litigation. Now is the time to find errors in the voter rolls if we want to solve them before 2024. Now is the time to find and eliminate duplicate registrations on the voter rolls.
We recently secured a series of wins in Minnesota to remove over 500 duplicate registrations from the voter roll. A duplicate registration happens when a person is registered under variations of his or her name. For example, I could be registered as J. Christian Adams or Christian Adams without being easily found. These duplicate registrations matter because they could facilitate someone voting twice, especially in states like Nevada that automatically send every active registered voter a ballot. Nobody could reasonably be in favor of one registrant receiving multiple ballots in the mail.
The 500 duplicate registrations we fixed in Minnesota matter. For instance, former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman (R) lost to challenger Al Franken (D) by only 312 votes. In case you forgot, Franken provided a filibuster-proof Senate that gave us Obamacare.
Additionally, in 2021, PILF sued Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for failing to remove over 25,000 deceased registrants from the voter roll. Almost 4,000 of these deceased registrants have been dead for two decades. Nobody should be active on the voter rolls two decades after death. Proving how these cases take time, we are still in litigation with the secretary, who still refuses to take the problem seriously. The court has denied the secretary’s motion to dismiss the case, and we are in discovery now.
The point is we must start the work now. We cannot be caught reacting to lawlessness and election officials’ abandonment of their duties on the eve of 2024. Election lawsuits in the fall usually fail. Odd-numbered years are when election rules and procedures are best decided.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/clean-up-voter-rolls-now
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