By Tate Rosentreter | Just the News
Executive director of Honest Elections Project Jason Snead told The Center Square that “the Ninth Circuit absurdly ruled that voter rolls are not a record related to list maintenance, but the result of list maintenance activity, and therefore can be kept secret.”
Honest Elections Project filed an amicus brief on behalf of the petitioner in Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Nago, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the case, with an attorney arguing that voter rolls being available for public view are vital to election integrity.
Executive director of Honest Elections Project Jason Snead told The Center Square that “the Ninth Circuit absurdly ruled that voter rolls are not a record related to list maintenance, but the result of list maintenance activity, and therefore can be kept secret.”
“That ruling conflicts with other circuits, which is why the Supreme Court should step in to make it clear that state voter registration records are subject to public examination,” Snead said.
“Under the [National Voter Registration Act], records related to list maintenance are supposed to be available for inspection so the public can know whether states are fulfilling their legal duty to keep accurate voter rolls,” Snead said.
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