Court Says Maine Must Disclose Voter Rolls to Election Integrity Group

Published on February 6, 2024

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a conservative-backed group, concluding that Maine’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 State’s office denied the foundation’s request for a copy of the state’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 “necessary” if members of the public or organizations are “ever to identify, address, and fix irregularities in states’ voter rolls by exercising their private right of action under the NVRA.”...

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