With the election now one week and a day from today, the Public Interest Legal Foundation is busy trying to do last-minute cleanups on election integrity issues across the country.
For one thing, the PILF's litigation and research has uncovered evidence that non-citizens have registered to vote in five key battleground states. PILF continues to push some states to do a better job of cleaning up their voter rolls.
Lauren Bis is director of communications and engagement at PILF. She says while some states really have improved their process, others haven't.
"Like Georgia they passed their election integrity law. Some states just haven't gotten better as we like, like Nevada that automatic vote by mail, like Wisconsin with the same day voter registration."
In Virginia, the state has had to battle the Biden administration in an effort to uphold federal law by preventing noncitizen voting.
An appeals court on Sunday upheld a ruling by District Judge Patricia Giles, a Joe Biden appointee, ordering Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to restore voting registration for 1,600 noncitizens the state had purged.
Youngkin said he was upholding a state law that requires Virginia to cancel the registration of noncitizens. Giles said the state was in violation of the 90-day “quiet period” for voter roll changes before an election.
The state on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case, The Associated Press reported.
Mail-in makes a mess
Bis says mail-in balloting is going to make it difficult for some states to declare a winner on election night.
"Because states accept mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, several states, days, even weeks. Undoubtedly because of that, you're going to have a delay in results. So unfortunately, I think because of those sorts of laws that exist in some states, I find it unlikely that on election night we will know who the next president is, but I hope we know that week.”
