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.
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CEC Counsels 6th Circuit to Uphold Civil Rights Act and NVRA Transparency Rules
CEC filed an amicus brief in USA v. Benson with partners RITE and the Honest Elections Project, urging the 6th Circuit to reverse a district court’s decision that barred the U.S. Government from compelling Michigan to produce its voter registration file despite clear text to the contrary.
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 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. 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.