Court Says Maine Must Disclose Voter Rolls to Election Integrity Group

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The court said that disseminating the voter file to the public is โ€˜necessaryโ€™ if they want to โ€˜fix irregularitiesโ€™ in the stateโ€™s voter rolls.

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a conservative-backed group, concluding that Maineโ€™s restrictions on the release of voter lists violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit in February 2020 after the Maine Secretary of Stateโ€™s office denied the foundationโ€™s request for a copy of the stateโ€™s voter registration file and voting histories in 2019.

In a ruling on Feb. 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit said that disseminating voter file information to the public is โ€œnecessaryโ€ if members of the public or organizations are โ€œever to identify, address, and fix irregularities in statesโ€™ voter rolls by exercising their private right of action under the NVRA.โ€

The court said the evaluation of voter registration rolls โ€œwould be impossible if the results of Maineโ€™s voter list registration and maintenance activities were not subject to public disclosure.โ€

In addition, the court ruled that Maineโ€™s fines and restrictions on the use of voter roll data are โ€œreal obstaclesโ€ to achieving Congressโ€™ intent for transparency and oversight under the NVRA.

Organization spokesperson Lauren Bowman said the group sued to ensure its researchers can compare voter rolls in one state against those in another and that it had no intention of publishing the rolls.

PILF President J. Christian Adams called the decision a โ€œmonumental victory for transparency in elections.โ€

Mr. Adams said in a statement that Maineโ€™s restrictions โ€œwould have prohibited basic voter roll research and limited PILFโ€™s ability to share its findings with the public,โ€œ and that โ€PILF was prohibited from comparing Maineโ€™s and New Yorkโ€™s voter rollsโ€ to identify duplicate registrations.

โ€œOther states should think twice before passing laws that restrict the public from accessing the voter file and speaking about any errors,โ€ he added.

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said she remains โ€œdeeply concernedโ€ because voter information has been previously shared online, something state officials had argued could subject voters to harassment.

Byย Aldgra Fredly

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