CEC filed an amicus brief in RNC v. Mi Familia Vota and Petersen v. Mi Familia Vota with RITE and the Honest Elections Project, urging SCOTUS to grant certiorari and reverse the 9th Circuit’s finding that the NVRA preempts Arizona’s law requiring proof of citizenship for absentee voting and the investigation and removal of non-citizens from its voter rolls.
Tag: list maintenance
CEC Recommends Refinements to EAC’s 2026 Election Administration and Voting Survey
CEC submitted comments to the EAC regarding recommended refinements to the 2026 EAVS. CEC’s comments focus on three main areas: USPS Postmark Regulatory Change, Cybersecurity Protections, and List Maintenance.
CEC Comments on Proposed NC List Maintenance Rules to Remove Non-Citizens
CEC submitted four comments urging the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) to adopt several proposed rules adding a new chapter of Title 8 of the state Administrative Code relating to voter roll list maintenance on the basis of citizenship status.
CEC Coverage of House Admin Hearing on Election Reform
The U.S. House Committee on House Administration today held a hearing entitled Make Elections Great Again: How to Restore Trust and Integrity in Federal Elections, and Center for Election Confidence (CEC) was there to cover it live on Twitter (also known as X).
CEC Urges Virginia to Make Key Updates to Election Regulations
The Center for Election Confidence, Inc. (CEC) submitted nine regulatory comments urging key election integrity, transparency, and voter confidence reforms to the Virginia State Board of Elections (Board) in response to the periodic review of election regulations mandated by Va. Code Ann. §§ 2.2-4007.1 and -4017, 1 VAC 20-10-120, and (Virginia) Executive Order 19 (2022).
CEC Coverage of House Elections Subcommittee Hearing on NVRA Reform
The U.S. House Committee on House Administration’s Elections Subcommittee today held a hearing entitled, Examining Potential Updates to the NVRA (the National Voter Registration Act), and Center for Election Confidence (CEC) was there to cover it live on Twitter (also known as X).
In general, Members, led by Chair Rep. Laurel Lee of Florida (the state’s former Secretary of State), focused their discussion with witnesses Mark Braden, of Baker Hostetler, Prof. Michael Morley of Florida State University College of Law, and Sophia Lin Lakin, of the ACLU, on the importance of ensuring critical list maintenance efforts are not hampered unnecessarily or on an unwarranted basis by federal law, including ensuring states have the tools they need to remove non-citizens and other ineligible registrants from their voter lists in a timely manner.
CEC Urges SCOTUS to Review PILF v. Benson to Ensure Effective List Maintenance
The Center for Election Confidence (CEC) today filed an amicus brief in PILF v. Benson (No. 25-437), urging the Supreme Court to grant review and to overturn the Sixth Circuit’s blessing of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s efforts to “eviscerate[] the purpose of the National Voter Registration Act” and undermine both election integrity and transparency through her failure to conduct an “effective” list maintenance program.
CEC Urges SCOTUS to review PILF v. Schmidt to Preserve Election Transparency
The Center for Election Confidence (CEC) today filed an amicus brief in Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Schmidt (No. 25-379), urging the Supreme Court to grant review and overturn Third Circuit’s decision to severely undermine the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) mandatory public-inspection regime for federal elections.
CEC Urges EAC to Adopt Interoperability Requirements to Boost List Maintenance
CEC submitted a comment to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission today urging it to adopt “broad interoperability requirements” in the upcoming release of version 2.1 of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (“VVSG”), arguing that “interoperability requirements will benefit all areas of [election] administration, including list maintenance” across state lines. The EAC is considering updates to […]