Watchdog Sues California County for Refusing to Release Information on Noncitizen Voters

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a federal lawsuit against Alameda County after an official declined its request to provide details of noncitizen voters. On Sept. 7 last year, PILF requested records related to foreign nationals registering and voting in U.S. elections. However, defendant Timothy Dupuis, the county’s registrar of voters, failed to provide the information. On Feb. 12, PILF filed a lawsuit alleging that the defendant violated the public disclosure provision of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993 “for failure to permit inspection of voter list maintenance records.” “For more than four months, we have been trying to obtain records about foreign nationals getting on the voter roll,” PILF’s president J. Christian Adams said. “Alameda County’s lack of transparency is concerning as we enter a presidential election year. The public has a right to inspect election records, including these important records that reveal mistakes and errors by election officials.”...