A recent syndicated column from Hans von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams highlights the Supreme Court fight over voter-roll transparency in PILF v. Nago. The column presents the circuit split as an important question for the Supreme Court because it determines whether citizens and organizations can independently examine statewide voter rolls and evaluate list-maintenance practices.
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Paul Clement for CEC: SCOTUS Must Confirm NVRA Requires Public Transparency in List Maintenance
In CEC’s latest SCOTUS amicus brief, noted advocate and former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement urges the Court to grant review in PILF v. Nago, a case concerning the NVRA’s public-inspection requirement. The 9th Circuit’s decision excludes statewide voter-registration lists from the NVRA’s transparency mandate. CEC explains why public access to voter rolls is essential to the NVRA’s purposes and why SCOTUS review is important for confidence in elections for voters across the political spectrum.