By Mary K. Garber
Last Friday, responding to an emergency request by the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling that had restrained the administration from using a controversial database to develop a list of people on the voting rolls who might not be citizens. The unsigned ruling was passed 6-3 by the conservative majority, with Justice Jackson writing in dissent, joined by Kagan and Sotomayer. Read Full Opinion.
In solidarity with other election integrity and voting rights organizations across the nation, Florida Fair Elections Coalition (FFEC) strongly opposes the Trump administration’s request to the states for personal data on American voters beyond what is already publicly available.
We further object to the apparent purpose for which this information is being sought—the pursuit of baseless claims of voter fraud that only serve as pretexts for erecting new barriers to voter registration and participation. (Read Full Statement)
Why did Florida have high “invalid votes” in the 2008 Presidential race? An important report from Florida Fair Elections Center (FFEC) finds that certain optical scan voting systems contributed significantly to Florida’s high invalid vote rate in the 2008 election, while other optical scan systems did not. (Read Full Statement).