Secure Elections

Arizona Deserves Secure, Orderly Elections

Voter Eligibility Verification Act

Section 303 of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) was designed to ensure that voter registration records contain basic identifying information. When an applicant has neither a driver’s license nor a Social Security number, however, the statute permits the state to assign a unique identifying number for voter registration purposes. That administrative fallback was meant to keep the registration process moving, not to substitute for substantive eligibility verification. States should clarify in law that applicants assigned a HAVA unique identifying number shall not be placed on the active voter rolls unless and until they provide documentary proof of United States citizenship.

AFPI: Congress Is Robbing Americans of the Secure Elections They Deserve

It has been thirty days after the House passed the SAVE America Act, and the Senate has failed to move it forward.

Non-Citizens and Automatic Voter Registration: A Voter Roll Vulnerability

All states issue driver’s licenses to non-citizens. When that practice is combined with Automatic Voter Registration (AVR), under which an applicant for a driver’s license may be simultaneously registered to vote, the result is often the placement of non-citizens on voter rolls. While every state issues driver’s licenses to lawfully present non-citizens, 19 states and Washington, D.C., also issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. The practice of AVR, combined with issuing driver’s licenses to non-citizens, creates serious voter roll vulnerability.

AFPI Applauds Termination of National Student Clearinghouse–Tufts Student Voter Data Partnership

Washington, D.C.—The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) issued the following statement from Anna Pingel, Campaign Director for Secure Elections, after the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) announced it will terminate its partnership with Tufts University’s National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) program amid an ongoing U.S. Department of Education investigation into potential violations of student data privacy protections.